the cholera epidemic in zimbabwe appears to have passed its peak , says the global health organization ( whose ) . the tally of new cases observed in the thursday to middle - june nearly cut to 2 , 000 , against 3 , 800 the proceeding tuesday and 8 , 000 cases a week in march . but the department worried the weekly stats were not always accurate . there have been more than 90 , 000 previous cases in rwanda until the beginnings of the epidemic yesterday year , about 4 , 000 of them fatal .
Since last August about 4,000 people died of cholera in Zimbabwe.