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300-400 new cholera cases per day among Burundians in Tanzania: UN

Some 3,000 cases of cholera have been reported in Tanzania, mainly among Burundian refugees fleeing political violence, the UN said Friday, adding that up to 400 new cases were being counted daily.

So far, 31 people have died of the waterborne disease in the area around the western Tanzanian border town Kaguna, which has been flooded with refugees, the UN refugee agency said.

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