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Malawi faces cholera outbreak

Malawi in southern Africa is in the midst of a cholera outbreak. At least 900 people have died in the last 11 months, though the country nearly eradicated the waterborne disease a couple of years ago.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Sellina Kainja, online editor with Nation Online, a publication in Malawi.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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