41.   Treatment for dehydration vital in cholera cases was almost totally unobtainable in Monrovia because of widespread looting that accompanied the fighting, Luhan said.

42.   Two other cholera cases were registered in mid-September in the eastern Medgidia region.

43.   Unsafe drinking water has been blamed for a rash of cholera cases in Manila in recent weeks.

44.   Italian health minister Raffaele Costa said that the cholera cases in Italy did not amount to an epidemic and were isolated.

45.   Lack of soap could spark serious illnesses and already a number of cholera cases have been reported, Redmond said.

46.   Many cholera cases have also been registered in Chechnya, the separatist Caucasian state which borders Dagestan.

47.   Several of these may be cholera cases, doctors said.

48.   She could not say whether the cholera cases had beeen fatal because the doctor who took the samples had not returned to Goma.