Cholera kills 33 in Burundi refugee camp in Tanzania

[May 21, 2015] DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A cholera outbreak at a refugee camp sheltering thousands of Burundian refugees in northwest Tanzania has killed at least 33 people, a Tanzanian regional health official said on Wednesday.

"The number of Burundi refugees who have died from the cholera outbreak has now reached 33," Leonard Subi, a medical officer in the nearby town of Kigoma, told Reuters.

(Reporting by Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala; Writing by George Obulutsa; Editing by Ed Cropley)

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