the cholera epidemic in zimbabwe appears to have passed its peak , says the world health organization ( who ) . the list of new births recorded in the week to mid - march substantially tripled to 2 , 000 , against 3 , 800 the next week and 8 , 000 cases a week in february . but the agency warned the nightly records were not usually reliable . there have been more than 90 , 000 cholera cases in salisbury between the start of the epidemic last august , about 4 , 000 of them deaths .
Since last August about 4,000 people died of cholera in Zimbabwe.