Aftermath of Cyclone Idai Medical staff disinfect a patient's feet outside emergency treatment tents at the Macurungo urban health center in Beira, Mozambique, on Friday, March 29, 2019. Cyclone Idai hit the Mozambican coast earlier this month, devastating the port city of Beira and killing at least 700 people in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. (Photo: Guillem Sartorio/Bloomberg)

Updated 1:40 p.m. ET, April 2, 2019

Mozambique has confirmed more than 1,000 cases of cholera as an outbreak of the water-borne disease spreads following a tropical cyclone last month which has killed at least 518 people in the southeast African nation.

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