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A 19 year old was reportedly diseased due to bird flu and passed away.
This is almost the first death in China due to bird flu in almost a year.

Reports suggest that the woman got diseased after coming in contact with a local poultry.
The death of this young woman has triggered the officials and has issued an alert against the bird flu.
Officials are taking severe measures in shutting down and disinfecting many poultry markets in the country.

China has the most poultry farms in the world would face severe difficulties when such problems are confronted.

Government has promised to tighten up the measures to make sure that no more citizens are being affected by the disease.

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Following the collapse of the health, sanitation and water services in Zimbabwe, there has been a rising death of cholera victims. UN and Zimbabwe’s health ministry revealed that two-thirds of the victims have died this month.

The UN recorded total death toll to be 1,564, with 29,131 suspected cases since August. On the other hand, Unicef stated the amount to be 1,174. While, figures from local health ministry on 1 December put it at 484. According to World Health Organisation, all 10 Zimbabwe’s provinces have received reports of cholera cases. Thus far, situation in suburb of Budiriro, Harare’s capital, has been the worst, followed by Beitbridge on border with South Africa. South Africa alone has recorded a total of 1,279 cases and 12 deaths.

Shortages of medical aids and food supply further accelerate the dire state. Many clinics and hospitals have ceased operations, leaving the population without proper treatments. Besides this, demand for food is yet another concern. Save the Children reported some five million people in Zimbabwe are in need of food aid.

Certainly, more aids are required for the population in Zimbabwe. The UN stressed that it could take up to six months to control the outbreak.

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A recent report highlighted the overall death toll of Zimbabwe cholera epidemic to be as high as 1,111. This figure is among the 20,581 cases reported since August. Previously, Harare has been deemed as the worst affected area. As for now, a new outbreak of hundreds of cases has been reported again in Chegutu, near capital of Harare.

Amid the cholera epidemic, Aid agency Oxfam has launched a £4m ($6.2m) appeal, hoping to relieve residents of cholera disease as well as shortages of food. The country’s political instability has hindered relieve aids, while escalating further spread of cholera. If the government continues to let its health services and water sanitation to be impaired, Zimbabwe could expect to witness another round of epidemic spread, causing more people to be affect.

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Bird flu threat has been alarmed in the country of China. The eastern province of the country has suffered the most effect.
After the outbreak of the virus more than 370 000 chickens have been culled in the eastern province of china.
The virus was reported to be H5N1 strain in the bird flu.

A man has been reported to have contracted the virus in the city of Cambodia. Taiwan is still investigating the spread of virus in the birds.
A girl of fourteen has been reported dead with the H5N1 virus outbreak.

Since the bird flu outbreak in April 2003 more than 200 people from various countries have been reportedly dead due to this virus.
Scientists fear that this H5N1 might develop into a dangerous virus which might later cause infection from human to human as well

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A surge of 978 more victims of cholera has been reported by the Zimbabwe government.
These numbers seems to have increased in a very short span of 3 days only, reports say.
A total of 18, 413 suspects have been reported to the UN council since the month of August to have been hit and suffered Cholera.
The talks have ended without a proper decision on to censure the President of Zimbabwe or not.
A confirmed report from the UN has showed that 208 people have been confirmed dead due to the spread of cholera and close to 9000 more are in critical state.
The South African Red cross is doing all it can in its power to save as many members as possible.
They have dispatched all medical and food supplies to Zimbabwe necessary to treat the cholera hit victims.
It has also dispatched messages of help from governments to supply them enough funds to treat another 30 000 cholera hit people.
It is noticed that if there is no immediate action taken against this massive cholera attack the casualties will keep on growing and the number may well exceed 60 000.

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A South African delegation is reported to visit the Cholera hit Zimbabwe this week.
The country is already providing medical aids and supplies to help the victims attacked by cholera.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) there have been more than 14000 cases of cholera that have been reported till date.

8 people have been reported dead in the town of Musina, which is located across the border of South Africa.
Now Musina has also become a Cholera aid center, with no sufficient food and water for the cholera hit victims.

President Robert Mugabe’s inefficiency of taking care of the situation in his country has been deeply condemned by the people.
The group – which includes former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan – said there was “bitter disappointment” with the current leadership.
The group also called on the Southern African Development Community to help contain the outbreak.

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Amid a drastic cholera epidemic, Zimbabwe now faces yet another problem – limitation in clean water supply. Since the dawn of cholera in August, 500 have died and many infected. Collapse of the country’s health and sanitation systems has been the main cause of the epidemic. Without proper management, water and sanitation systems soon became the source of epidemic spread.

Many areas are reported to be in extreme shortage of portable water supply; both drinking and medical use. In Mabvuku and Tafara areas, eastern of Harare, water has been cut off since April. In city center, water is only available for an hour or so each day.

According to emergency clinics, as much as 60 litres of water are required to treat a single cholera patient. They are receiving approximately 200 patients each day. Currently, water from boreholes are delivered to the clinic via trucks, however, both boreholes and trucks are short in numbers. Clinics have since implemented water restriction regime, whereby each patient would receive just half the amount of water, from 60 litres to a mere 30 litres.

If water supply is not met, cholera epidemic could worsen especially during rainy season.

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Cholera outbreaks in Zimbabwe are not as optimistic to the UN Children Fund. Officials are expecting cholera cases to raise further, up by an estimated amount of 60,000 in the coming weeks. Death toll could reach to 2,700, commented by Roeland Monasch, Unicef chief in Harare.

Mr. Monasch projected that the actual death toll might even be higher than recorded, attributing to the fact that people in rural areas frequently just bury the dead without reporting.

The epidemic might spread further, extend uncontrollably during rainy season from December to March. To make matter worst, population in Zimbabwe is in short of food; people were reported to be in extreme hunger even for the disease-stricken. If another round of cholera was to strike, under conditions such as shortages of food and medical aids, it could no doubt lead to a far more fatal epidemic.

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