The government should declare the cholera outbreak a national disaster and solicit international assistance, the group said.
CNN: Zimbabwe health service in 'state of collapse,' doctors say
Meanwhile, the country is battling a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly 800 people since August, according to the World Health Organization.
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The reported detention follows a warning on Saturday by Mr Mugabe's spokesman of state action against journalists for "mis-reporting" on the cholera outbreak.
Among the many uncertainties, will the cholera outbreak spread because of the heavy rain, and the risk that stagnant water will incubate the disease?
Cuba's health ministry has confirmed a cholera outbreak in Havana with 51 people infected - the biggest incidence of the disease there in decades.
Later that same year a cholera outbreak killed another 6, 000 inhabitants.
Although Oktoberfest began 200 years ago, this year's festival is only the 177th, since it wasn't held during the two World Wars and during a cholera outbreak, organizers say.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Nearly 300 people have died from a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe that is compounded by the country's collapsing health-care system, according to the World Health Organization.
Cuban health officials allowed a CNN crew to be the first media to film in the hospital and speak with doctors there about the ongoing effort to control the cholera outbreak.
The cholera outbreak is part of a larger humanitarian crisis and economic meltdown in Zimbabwe, in which half the population is in dire need of food and water, according to the United Nations.
They later returned to Haiti to offer aid during a cholera outbreak, and then in May, the group left Haiti for Bocos del Toro, Panama, where they have been working for the last nine months.
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Despite reporting five deaths from a bacteria-caused illness, public health officials said Tuesday they are more concerned about the possibility of toxic chemicals in the water covering New Orleans than they are about a cholera outbreak.
The force became hugely unpopular after an outbreak of cholera, which Haitians said blamed on foreign peacekeepers.
The source has been identified as a foodseller who caught cholera during a previous outbreak in eastern Cuba.
In 2010, flooding in northern Cameroon triggered an outbreak of cholera that claimed nearly 6, 000 lives, according to official estimates.
She said they were currently working in "extreme conditions", with recent flooding worsening already poor sanitation, an outbreak of cholera and hepatitis and a rise in malnutrition in children.
"Although Zimbabwe is not facing armed conflict, humanitarian threats such as food shortages and outbreak of diseases such as cholera pose a significant challenge, " said Agostinho Zacarias, U.N.
CNN: U.N. official: Zimbabwe's woes 'pose signficant challenge'
As ever after such events, an outbreak of waterborne diseases such as cholera is feared.
Almost 12, 000 people have contracted cholera since August in Zimbabwe, and the outbreak threatens to kill even greater numbers as the water situation becomes more desperate.
While in the rest of the country little has been said in the official press about the cholera, in Granma province, the site of the outbreak, residents are now shown a nightly program on how to prevent infection.
Although the cholera epidemic was declared under control last month, a renewed outbreak is likely, international health officials have said.
CNN: U.N. official: Zimbabwe's woes 'pose signficant challenge'
The UN's own cholera expert, Danielle Lantagne, has said that Haiti's outbreak is likely to have come from UN soldiers.
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