Zimbabwe’s government still believes cholera a biological warfare

August 2008 is nightmarish to most Zimbabweans as it was then that a water-borne disease outbreak, that has to date wiped out close to 1,000 lives began. Never in the history of this once prosperous Southern African country did such a manageable epidemic as cholera spread at such magnitude. Due to the economic collapse that has seen urban sanitation facilities disintegrating, health delivery services decaying with major hospitals closing, doctors and nurses downing tools so do critics point to the manifestation of the pandemic spread. But government blamed for the ailing economy because of gross mismanagement is still in a state of denial instead, apportioning fault of the cholera outbreak on sanctions by Western countries, in general, and of late on biological warfare, in particular.