Cholera knocks on flooded doors

The Nation

Cholera knocks on flooded doors

The swelling Lake Malawi has left communities along its shoreline and the Shire River on the cusp of disease outbreaks, including cholera. Since February this year, settlements along the country’s largest lake to those on the sole outlet up to Kamuzu Barrage in Liwonde have been flooded. For over a month now, homes, toilets, septic tanks, rubbish pits and water points in affected communities have been underwater. Some survivors living in the swa…