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Health workers in Zimbabwe are warning that international alarm over the spreading cholera emergency, which has claimed nearly a thousand lives, is overshadowing the AIDS crisis, which is killing as many people every three days.

Zubeda Hameed |Chennai,
Fever, vomitting and diarrhoea are common complaints from the outlying inundated areas as the city lacks clean drinking water
TWO weeks after the cessation of rain, reports of outbreak of diseases are coming from several areas in the city and the suburbs.

GENEVA: The onset of seasonal rain in Zimbabwe has increased fears that the cholera epidemic there could turn into a catastrophe with thousands more sick and further spreading into neighbouring countries, according to the Red Cross federation.

It is bad news for the residents of Bhanpur that they are under the grip of death. Hundreds of truck garbage dumped by the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) spreading various diseases in the area, compelling them to die slowly.

Upset: Residents of Ramaiyanpattai who submitted a petition to the Collector G. Prakash on Monday against release of sewage into Chathram Puthukkulam