By Sanday Chongo Kabange, AfricaNews reporter in Lusaka, Zambia
LUSAKA, 6 December 2008: Zambia has been placed under health alert following the outbreak of cholera in Zimbabwe. The country has with immediate effect sealed off its borderline with Zimbabwe following a cholera outbreak that has killed close to 500 people in that country.
Cholera is endemic in the Southern African state. Zambia’s Deputy Minister for Health Mwendoi Akakandelwa said the cholera outbreak in the troubled Southern African state has spilled over into Zambia after a Zimbabwean national died at the resort border town of Siavonga, about 600 kilometers south of the capital city Lusaka.
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