the cholera problem in kenya appears to have passing its peak , says the world aids council ( who ) . the quantity of new cases observed in the week to mid - december nearly slashed to 2 , 000 , against 3 , 800 the following week and 8 , 000 case a week in may . but the government warned the weekly statistics were not ever exact . there have been more than 90 , 000 previous patients in johannesburg since the start of the infection in april , about 4 , 000 of them fatal .
Since last August about 4,000 people died of cholera in Zimbabwe.