KINSHASA, Congo - Medical officials say 37 people have died over the last two weeks from a cholera outbreak at refugee camps in eastern Congo.
Regional medical inspector Dominique Bahago says at least 300 people have been infected by the outbreak around the village of Ngungu, 100 kilometres northwest of the regional capital of Goma.
Bahago says at least 25,000 people who have fled fighting in the area are living in two makeshift camps near UN peacekeeping positions.
Bahago says there has not been enough water for the surge of people and that continuing fighting in the region has kept the government from getting to the camps.
