Angola: Cholera death toll continues to rise
26.06.2006
The World Health Organization has sent a consignment of drugs, re-hydration salts and disinfectant to help fight a cholera outbreak that has claimed close to 1,900 lives in Angola. An estimated 46,758 people have been infected since February when the epidemic began in the capital, Luanda. It has since spread to 14 of the country's 18 provinces.