UN: Cholera cases top 60,000

An out-of-control cholera epidemic has sickened more than 60,000 Zimbabweans since August, the United Nations said today.

Experts had predicted the crisis would peak at 60,000 cases, but the UN humanitarian affairs agency said 60,401 cases and 3,161 deaths have now been recorded. Experts believe many more have been taken ill without being counted because so few Zimbabweans are able to get to hospitals.