Mozambique: International Aid Targets Deadly Cholera

In the wake of Cyclone Idai’s devastation, Mozambique now faces 1,000 cases of cholera. The soaring disease toll follows storm-surge flooding that contaminated wells with sewage. VOA’s Brian Padden reports international relief organizations are scrambling to prevent a deadly epidemic in the impoverished country where the storm’s death toll is already over 800, with thousands more displaced and many in desperate need of emergency food and supplies.

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