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Zimbabwe doctors report 800 typhoid cases

Patients suffering from typhoid are seen at a local infectious disease hospital in Harare, Tuesday, Nov.5, 2011. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Patients suffering from typhoid are seen at a local infectious disease hospital in Harare, Tuesday, Nov.5, 2011. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

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Date: Sunday Jan. 29, 2012 8:29 AM ET

HARARE, Zimbabwe — An independent doctors' group in Zimbabwe is reporting 800 cases of the bacterial disease typhoid in a recent outbreak.

No deaths have been reported in the past three weeks. The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights said Sunday that the nation's troubled coalition government lacked urgency in dealing with public health woes.

In a statement, the group said that amid heavy rains clean water supplies were still irregular or "completely absent" in most impoverished townships in Harare. It said burst sewers were left unattended and meat and fish were sold on streets nearby.

A cholera outbreak in 2009 blamed on the collapse of water, sanitation and prevention services in Zimbabwe killed more than 4,000 people.

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