the cholera epidemic in zimbabwe appears to have passed its peak , states the world healthcare organization ( who ) . the number of current cases recorded in the week to mid - march nearly chopped to 2 , 000 , against 3 , 800 the previously thursday and 8 , 000 instances a thursday in 2014 . but the agency warned the weekly statistics were not exclusively accurate . there have been more than 90 , 000 previous cases in zimbabwe between the beginnings of the epidemic last august , about 4 , 000 of them fatal .
Since last August about 4,000 people died of cholera in Zimbabwe.