Let's start with anthrax. Anthrax is indigenous in Zimbabwe. And this coincided with the intensification of the struggle right toward the end, just before independence. You're saying that it is epidemiologically inconceivable that you can have an average of 24 cases a year that then spikes to 10,000 in the next two years. I haven't heard of it.
Cholera too is endemic in certain parts of Africa.
We've looked at the records right back to the date of occupation and there have never been any outbreaks of cholera until 1975 and that coincided with the introduction of cholera in East Africa. It's very interesting that it occurred so quickly after the introduction, particularly during a period of hostility when movement was severely restricted in the eastern districts of this country. In fact, one of the people who studied cholera in Southeast Asia remarked to me on the 1993 outbreak, that he was surprised that we had got cholera under control within three months and eliminated it within seven. That just wouldn't happen if it were an endemic outbreak. Well, even it if were suppressed it would recur, and it has not until very recently and these are new imported cases.