31.   Thousands died when a cholera epidemic swept the camps.

32.   Unfortunately, he arrives at the same time as a deadly cholera epidemic.

33.   Yet the absence of virtually any sanitation system and the lack of clean water are the major causes of the cholera epidemic.

34.   Peru, bordering Chile to the north, has been the hardest hit by cholera epidemics in recent years.

35.   A cholera epidemic broke out in Ukraine this summer.

36.   A cholera epidemic has claimed ten lives in the past three weeks.

37.   A cholera epidemic also broke out this summer in neighboring Moldova, just to the north of the Danube Delta, health officials said.

38.   A growing cholera epidemic in Ukraine claimed its fifth victim over the weekend, health officials reported Monday.

39.   A year after a cholera epidemic struck Ukraine, the first three cases of the disease have been reported in the south of the former Soviet republic.

40.   Also Saturday, North Korea, quoted an unidentified Public Health Ministry spokesman as accusing Russia of spreading false reports about a cholera epidemic.