Health authorities are probably mindful of a cholera epidemic that swept through Penang in May last year.

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In addition, a cholera epidemic sweeping the country has claimed several lives and spread to neighboring South Africa.

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The sheriff, Isaac (Ben Browder), wants to protect Jex, who had previously saved Mercy from a cholera epidemic.

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With nearly 1m earthquake victims still displaced, a cholera epidemic and a political vacuum, Haiti faces many pressing tasks.

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Zimbabwe is in the grip of a cholera epidemic that has left nearly 800 dead, a World Health Organization official said Wednesday.

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For example in 1973 the New York Times published news of a drought in Bangladesh, and in 1974 it reported a cholera epidemic.

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Meanwhile, Zimbabwe's worst humanitarian and economic crisis since its independence from Great Britain in 1980 rages on, with a cholera epidemic that has claimed nearly 2, 000 lives since August.

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But in 1969 a cholera epidemic hit Murphy's farm.

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An unfortunate consequence of relying on English-language documents is that the local population appears for much of this history as a series of administrative inconveniences: a dock strike here, a cholera epidemic there, that kind of thing.

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Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and suffered further in the 2010 earthquake, which destroyed much of the country, and from a subsequent cholera epidemic that has killed more than 7, 000 people.

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Mugabe's government has declared the cholera epidemic a national emergency and called on international organizations for help.

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The cholera epidemic began in Haiti in 2010 near a camp for UN soldiers, where there were leaking sewage pipes.

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Although the cholera epidemic was declared under control last month, a renewed outbreak is likely, international health officials have said.

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So far, there have been no confirmed cases of cholera in the camps of Dubea, but there's an epidemic raging through a series of camps to the west of here.

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And then we might have outbreaks of things like cholera or measles or something that we have to respond to very quickly before it really becomes like a whole epidemic.

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