Inter Press Service reports on a cholera outbreak in Malawi?s Nsanje and Chikhwawa districts, located on the southern border with Mozambique, noting that government officials have attributed the outbreak to declining sanitation conditions as a result of flooding in late January. According to IPS, ?up to 550 pit latrines were washed away in Nsanje alone, a district hardest hit by the floods,? and ?[s]ewage from the latrines has contaminated water sources in the district, including boreholes and dug-out wells, thereby escalating the cholera incidents, according to the assistant Disaster Management Officer for Nsanje, Humphrey Magalasi.?
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Malawi Faces Cholera Outbreak After Floods Lead To Declining Sanitary?
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