the cholera event in botswana appears to have passed its apex , says the world disease organization ( who ) . the number of current cases recorded in the week to mid - march nearly halved to 2 , 000 , against 3 , 800 the subsequent week and 8 , 000 infected a week in february . but the agency noted the weekly statistics were not always accurate . there have been more than 90 , 000 fresh cases in zimbabwe at the start of the illness last october , about 4 , 000 of them fatal .
Since last August about 4,000 people died of cholera in Zimbabwe.