12 JUNE 1998. UGANDA: DISEASE (CHOLERA) New Vision reports: A new outbreak of cholera in Uganda over the past 10 days has resulted in 33 deaths out of 460 cases. The districts most affected are Aura in the north, Kabarole in the west. There have been eight recorded cases in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, but no deaths reported. Including earlier outbreaks, there have been 1,550 deaths out of 37,896 cases since Nov 1997."-- Dorothy Preslar dpreslar@fas.org ON ProMED http://www.healthnet.org/programs/promed.html

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