Cholera emergency declared in Sierra Leone

August 20, 2012, 5:16 am by Associated Press Healthwire

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- An outbreak of cholera in West Africa has infected more than 13,000 people and killed at least 258 people in Sierra Leone and Guinea, authorities said as they appealed for international assistance....

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