Contaminated drinking water, poor sanitation and dense urban living
have caused the worst outbreak of cholera in the history of Angola,
with 1,298 dead and tens of thousands of others infected, international
health officials said.
The outbreak began in February in Luanda,
the rapidly growing capital where most of the more than 4 million
residents live in squalid, trash-filled slums without reliable sources
of clean water. It has since reached 11 of Angola's 18 provinces and,
in some areas, continues to grow worse. Nationwide, officials report
600 new cases a day, more than anywhere else in the world and a pace
more than four times faster than in the world's second-worst-hit area,
southern Sudan. On Tuesday alone, 31 Angolans reportedly died from
cholera.
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"I have never seen anything quite like this," David Weatherill, a
water sanitation specialist for Doctors Without Borders, a French
medical aid group, said at a news conference in Johannesburg on
Wednesday.
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