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Mozambique has confirmed more than 1,000 cases of cholera as an outbreak of the water-borne disease spreads following a tropical cyclone last month which has so far killed at least 598 people in the southeast African nation.
The number of cholera infections rose from 246 on March 30, the health ministry said in a statement. President Filipe Nyusi last week announced a campaign to vaccinate 800,000 people against the disease, which causes diarrhea and dehydration and can kill if untreated. One person has so far died from it.
The outbreak is compounding what United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has described as one of the worst weather-related disasters in African history. More than 820 people have died in flooding across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
Torrential rains that created an inland ocean the
size ofLuxembourg also destroyed or damaged about 100,000 houses in central Mozambique, according to the UN. At least 141,000 people are currently sheltering across 161 sites in affected areas as damage to water and sanitation infrastructure in the port city of Beira fuels concerns that the cholera outbreak may spread.