Cholera Outbreak in Malawi Has Killed 110 Since March

People look at an aerial map made using a drone camera during a drone mapping exercise for cholera hotspots organized and funded by UNICEF Malawi in Likuni, outside Lilongwe, Malawi, on Jan. 27, 2018. Amos Gumulira/AFP via Getty Images

BLANTYRE—Cholera has spread to 22 of Malawi’s 28 districts, killing 110 people and infecting 3,891 people since March when the first case was reported, the health minister said on Tuesday.

The first case of the debilitating infection, which spreads mainly through contaminated food and water, was reported in March in the southern district of Machinga.