When do you stop sending your child to school? When cholera has reached the next town (which it has)? When it's reached the high-density township of Chikanga near the school? If I pull him out now, he will miss the Nativity Play they've been rehearsing for all term. ("We three kings of GLORY AND TAR", he chants).
There is likely no treatment for cholera in the local private clinic. A classmate's father was supposed to be bringing in cholera treatment from Mozambique but not till this weekend. Cholera kills in a few hours. You need a simple rehydration solution to treat it. I should stock up on Coca-Cola. But where do I find it? I went to the forex shop two days ago, but there was little for sale. The truck with provisions on wasn't due from South Africa till the end of the week.
Cholera needs no transport, it has no passport, the head of the Zimbabwe Doctors for Human Rights Douglas Gwatidzo said today.
Better safe than sorry?
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