Cholera Outbreak in Zimbabwe Is Crossing Borders

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Dec 3, 2008 4:46 PM EST

Article Source: FOXNews.com

Graphic images of bodies stacked in the bathrooms of crumbling Zimbabwean hospitals and of hundreds of cholera-stricken victims fleeing across the border for medical treatment in South Africa have sparked fears that the epidemic in Zimbabwe is spinning out of control.

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wmolaw

Ah, the wonders of the socialist state. It just warms the heart to see the socialist state taking care of its citizens so completely and effectively. (sarcasm)

Venezuela, if you let Chavez pass his constitutional amendments, this will be you in ten years!

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5 votes

#1 - Wed Dec 3, 2008 4:47 PM EST

{"commentId":4287341,"authorDomain":"SVForbes"}

ShaunV

Ah, the wonders of the socialist state. It just warms the heart to see the socialist state taking care of its citizens so completely and effectively. (sarcasm)

Yes. The wonders and joys of socialism. ;-)

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3 votes

#1.1 - Thu Dec 4, 2008 10:19 AM EST

{"commentId":4283593,"authorDomain":"backroadsbubba"}

backroads

A bazillion percent inflation, their agriculture in shambles and now cholera. I heard the unofficial death count is twice what Mugabe says.

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3 votes

#2 - Wed Dec 3, 2008 10:29 PM EST

{"commentId":4285992,"authorDomain":"wmolaw"}

wmolaw

Probably more than that.

Where are all the lefties that thought this guy was the second coming for Africa?

They will never, ever learn will they?

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5 votes

#2.1 - Thu Dec 4, 2008 7:54 AM EST

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backroads

I've only come across one person who proclaimed Mugabe was "a true son of Africa," as he put it.

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3 votes

#2.2 - Thu Dec 4, 2008 9:22 AM EST

{"commentId":4286670,"authorDomain":"wmolaw"}

wmolaw

Back:

Sure, NOW. How about ten, fifteen, twenty years ago. He was the @!$%#ing socialist savior of Africa! The redistributor, of all redistributors!

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5 votes

#2.3 - Thu Dec 4, 2008 9:24 AM EST

{"commentId":4286726,"authorDomain":"backroadsbubba"}

backroads

Yes, and it was clear then how things would end up. The farms are in disarray.

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2 votes

#2.4 - Thu Dec 4, 2008 9:30 AM EST

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wmolaw

Yes, it was clear. Just as it is clear in Venezuela today, if only people would look.

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4 votes

#2.5 - Thu Dec 4, 2008 9:35 AM EST

{"commentId":4284281,"authorDomain":"ElliePhat"}

ElliePhat

It's unbearable that this goes on in 2008.

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4 votes

#3 - Wed Dec 3, 2008 11:58 PM EST

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backroads

Mugabe will stay in power even if it kills everybody in Zimbabwe.

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3 votes

#3.1 - Thu Dec 4, 2008 12:10 AM EST

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wmolaw

Ellie:

Unfortunately, this is about par for many countries in Africa, death, disease, murder, torture.

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4 votes

#3.2 - Thu Dec 4, 2008 7:55 AM EST

{"commentId":4287352,"authorDomain":"SVForbes"}

ShaunV

Mugabe will stay in power even if it kills everybody in Zimbabwe.

Sad, but Ironically on target.

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4 votes

#3.3 - Thu Dec 4, 2008 10:20 AM EST

{"commentId":6843140,"authorDomain":"krishna109"}

krishna-167929

Hopefully there will soon be more attention paid on NV to important human rights issues in Africa (please see this seed-- and especially the discussion there: Invisible Children of Uganda – Have you Heard of them?

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2 votes

#4 - Fri May 1, 2009 10:22 PM EDT

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wmolaw

No way. To those currently in power, they are just tools, not people.

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1 vote

#4.1 - Mon May 4, 2009 2:44 PM EDT

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