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A regional hospital is seen in Bafoussam, Cameroon, Sept. 20, 2021. The country is struggling with a cholera outbreak that has infected thousands of people. [AFP]
Officials in Cameroon have shut down markets in an attempt to stop a wave of cholera infections spreading through all 10 regions of the central African state.
The government says more than 20,000 people have been infected, but the figures may be higher as a majority of the country's 26 million people do not go to hospitals for treatment. Some hospitals are overwhelmed with cholera patients.
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