Cholera's effects go beyond the death toll.

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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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But the lawyers acting for Haiti's cholera victims say they don't want charity - they want justice.

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Cuba's last cholera outbreak occurred over a century ago.

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But in 1969 a cholera epidemic hit Murphy's farm.

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Unchecked sewage and filthy water have compounded the cholera problem, and Zimbabwe's death rate from the disease is 10 times greater than rates in areas where treatment is available, Carter said.

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Mugabe's government has declared the cholera epidemic a national emergency and called on international organizations for help.

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The group held Mugabe's government responsible for the cholera epidemic that broke out early last month in the capital city and has since spread to other parts of the country.

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As a result, St Marc's hospital has been inundated with cholera cases, obliging other patients to go elsewhere.

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Cuba's health ministry has confirmed a cholera outbreak in Havana with 51 people infected - the biggest incidence of the disease there in decades.

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"For the first time in the history of (the doctor's) island, no one died of cholera, " Stachel said.

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So far, there have been no confirmed cases of cholera in the camps of Dubea, but there's an epidemic raging through a series of camps to the west of here.

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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.

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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.

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"Since yesterday they have been assessing the situation in order to determine how we can do more to help those who have contracted cholera or are at risk of developing the disease, " said Benjamin Fouda, the ICRC's health coordinator in Zimbabwe.

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Pfizer says the children died from the disease, not from the drug trial, won't confirm a possible settlement, and says it's "proud" of its role during the 1996 epidemic, an ugly trifecta of meningitis, cholera and measles.

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Meanwhile, Zimbabwe's worst humanitarian and economic crisis since its independence from Great Britain in 1980 rages on, with a cholera epidemic that has claimed nearly 2, 000 lives since August.

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Built after a string of cholera epidemics in the 19th century by Joseph Bazalgette, an engineer in the heroic Victorian mould, the capital's 14, 000-mile sewer network was a triumph of engineering and a victory for public health.

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