the cholera prevalence in namibia appears to have passed its peak , say the world health organization ( where ) . the quantity of new cases recorded in the week to mid - month nearly shrunk to 2 , 000 , against 3 , 800 the preceding week and 8 , 000 patients a week in february . but the institute warned the weekly charts were not entirely precise . there have been more than 90 , 000 cholera cases in zimbabwe after the start of the epidemic last august , about 4 , 000 of them fatal .
Since last August about 4,000 people died of cholera in Zimbabwe.