Cholera in the Time of Mugabe

A 23-year-old Zimbabwean woman infected with cholera passes in and out of consciousness as she is admitted to the Beatrice Infectious Diseases Hospital and given rehydration fluids through an IV in Harare, Zimbabwe, Dec. 23, 2008.

A Zimbabwean child infected with cholera is admitted to the Beatrice Infectious Diseases Hospital and given rehydration fluids through an IV in Harare, Zimbabwe, Dec. 23, 2008.

A cemetery worker digs a grave for a 7-year-old child that died of cholera in the B Wing of the Granaville Cemetery, designated for cholera victims, near Budiriro, Zimbabwe, Dec. 14, 2008.