SOUTH AFRICA-ZIMBABWE: The politics of cholera

JOHANNESBURG Friday, November 21, 2008 (IRIN) - The number of people being treated for cholera in the northern town of Musina, near South Africa's border with Zimbabwe, is falling, but the situation remains serious. "It's difficult to say the situation is under control, as it is difficult to trace the patients once they are released; we don't know where they go, we don't know whether they take risks," John Shiburi, a South African Red Cross Society official in Musina, told IRIN. According to...