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cholera
Due to the country's civil war, more than 80 percent of the population lacks food, fuel, clean water and access to healthcare.
Only 5 percent of Puerto Ricans have electricity and less than half have clean drinking water.
The WHO sent a team of experts to Congo this month to try and stop the disease's spread.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The epidemic is the most explosive on record in terms of its rapid spread.
Health workers haven't been paid in almost a year.
The disease is spread by ingesting fecal matter.
