Have you heard the one about the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe that has so far infected 16,000 people? Punchline: “There is no cholera.” According to Robert Mugabe’s spokesman, Zimbabwe’s embattled leader was being “sarcastic” when he said exactly that yesterday. Nearly 800 Zimbabweans have died from cholera since August, and the number of cases, in the worst-case scenario, could rise to 60,000.
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