

ASSOCIATED PRESS Above: A woman thought to be suffering from cholera is transported in a wheelbarrow to a clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe, despite the likelihood that there will be no medicine with which to treat her as the nation's health care system has collapsed along with its economy. Left: The World Health Organization estimates that the number of cholera sufferers, like those at a clinic awaiting treatment (left), has increased to 16,700 and spread across the border into South Africa.