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Al Jazeera
Health
Shola Lawal

What’s fuelling the deadly cholera outbreak in Southern Africa?

A worker carries a bucketful of disinfectant at a cholera treatment centre, in Lusaka, Zambia, Friday, January 12, 2024 [AP Photo]

A severe cholera outbreak is currently ravaging communities in Southern Africa, spreading across borders in what experts say is the worst such crisis involving the illness that the region has seen in a decade.

Thousands of people have died, and thousands of others have been infected with the acute diarrheal disease in at least seven countries. In some of the hardest-hit countries, the outbreak forced millions of students to stay back home in January.

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