the cholera crisis in rhodesia looks to have passed its peak , says the world life organization ( who ) . the population of total episodes listed in the week to close - march almost halved to 2 , 000 , against 3 , 800 the preceding week and 8 , 000 case a week in february . but the agency warned the weekly statistics were not always accurate . there have been more than 90 , 000 confirmed outbreak in zimbabwe by 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.