51.   Somalia is one of eight countries in eastern Africa suffering from a cholera epidemic due largely to unsanitary conditions brought about by unseasonally heavy rains.

52.   That appeared to confirm reports of a major cholera epidemic in North Korea.

53.   The country subsequently was hit by a cholera epidemic and anthrax in its cattle population.

54.   The recent cholera epidemics in Latin America, eastern Africa and the Indian subcontinent were traced to drinking polluted groundwater.

55.   The World Health Organization on Sunday said the refugees, lacking proper shelter, food and water, face a devastating cholera epidemic unless more help arrives soon.

56.   Tons of human waste were dumped into the lake, igniting a cholera epidemic that killed countless numbers of people.

57.   Vibrio cholera, common in warm brackish water, is not associated with the cholera epidemics experienced in developing Third World nations, health officials say.

58.   Victims exhibit cholera-like symptoms, but officials are not calling it a cholera epidemic.

59.   Ukraine has been fighting off a cholera epidemic for the second summer in a row.

60.   Unseasonably heavy rains caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon have fueled a cholera epidemic as waters flooded pit latrines and caused a breakdown in sanitation.