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Epidemic's Toll Swells
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Published: December 4, 2008
HARARE - Riot police charged into a group of doctors and nurses protesting Zimbabwe's deepening economic and health crisis, eyewitnesses said Wednesday as deaths rose sharply from a cholera epidemic blamed on collapsing infrastructure.
The witnesses said officers in downtown Harare ran into a march of doctors and nurses who fled. A few blocks away, police stopped teachers trying to join the protest. The unions are joining a mass movement to press the government to respond to the worsening crises.
The United Nations said that deaths from the cholera epidemic had risen to 565, with 12,546 people infected. The nationwide outbreak of the waterborne disease is blamed on collapsing water treatment plants and broken sewage pipes.
The Associated Press
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