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Lets Fight Cholera yourself and

your
community
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Together
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nharaundo yako

Causes of
Preventing Cholera Cholera

Drinking contaminated water: This is the

most common way cholera spreads.
Contaminated water can come from wells,
dams, rivers or even household water
supplies that have been improperly treated.
Eating contaminated food : Food can become
1. Ensure safe drinking water
contaminated with cholera if it is washed or
2. practice good hygiene cooked with contaminated water or if it
3. Thoroughly cook food comes into contact with flies or other insects
4. Wash fruits and vegetables that have been in contact with it.
Person to person contact: Sometimes
5. Maintain proper sanitation
Signs and cholera can be spread through close contact
with an infected person.
Symptoms of
1. Profuse watery Diarrhea, sometimes
cholera described as rice-water stools.
2. Vomiting
3. thirst
4. leg cramps
5. restlessness and irritability

This year in Zimbabwe, the first case of cholera was reported in February 2023, with over
20 000 people and 370 deaths registered as of 23 January. WHO is working closely with
the government of Zimbabwe to implement comprehensive responsestrategies
places like Manicaland and Masvingo were
deeply affected by the cholera outbreak

Help stop the spread of

Cholera!!

key message from the Minister Of Health poster by Fadzai Mushayi

contact : +263 7888 03602

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