ZIMBABWE: Disaster unit deployed in response to cholera outbreak

HARARE Wednesday, November 05, 2008 (IRIN) - Zimbabwe has activated its national disaster response agency, the Civil Protection Unit (CPU), to counter the spread of cholera. President Robert Mugabe's government has stopped short of declaring a national disaster, although the CPU is usually deployed in the wake of national disasters, such as floods and droughts. The government said that in the past seven days nine people had died nationally from cholera, an easily treatable waterborne disease,...