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After 10 months, Sudan's Ministry of Health finally confirmed that there have been 265 deaths and more than 16,000 infected cases of "acute watery diarrhoea" in 11 of the country's 18 states. A half-admission that came only after the disease pierced the bubble of Sudan's capital, Khartoum. Medical professionals have long diagnosed the cases as cholera, despite the euphemisms the government has insisted on to downplay the severity of the crisis. But cholera by any other name is still cholera. [Source: BBC News]
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