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Salud Bienestar

Zimbabwe cholera deaths climb to 774


    GENEVA (Reuters) - A total of 774 people have died in the cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe and the figures are rising daily, the United Nations' World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday.

    WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said the latest figure -- nearly 200 up on the 589 deaths the agency reported on Tuesday

    -- covered the period up to December 8. "The numbers are changing every day," she added.

    (Reporting by Robert Evans; Editing by Charles Dick)