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The Cholera time bomb
A suspected cholera sufferer is transported to a clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe. The World Health Organisation says 300 people have died after contracting cholera in sewage-ridden Zimbabwean slums. Medicins Sans Frontieres warns that 1.4 million people are at risk. Robert Mugabe's government has tried to hide the potential crisis – described by some as a "ticking timebomb" – by preventing foreign authorities into the affected areas.
A Congolese boy at a cholera treatment clinic in the town of Goma, Congo where fighting between rebel forces and the government has displaced a quarter of a million people and caused a humanitarian crisis. Cholera is a waterborne disease easily prevented by ensuring proper sanitation. It is no longer a major health problem in first world countries but continues to threaten the developing world.