800 fall ill with typhoid

An independent doctors’ group in Zimbabwe is reporting 800 cases of the bacterial disease typhoid.

800  fall ill with  typhoid

No deaths have been reported in the past three weeks. The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights said the government lacked urgency in dealing with public health woes.

The group said that amid heavy rains, clean water supplies were still irregular or “completely absent” in the most impoverished townships in Harare. It said burst sewers were left unattended and meat and fish were sold on streets nearby.

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