Jill McGivering

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Jill McGivering


Tracking the source of cholera in Haiti

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Investigators are looking for the source of a deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti. Suspicion has fallen on a base housing United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal, where cholera is endemic. BBC’s Jill McGivering gives an update.Download MP3

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Revisiting a family in Pakistan

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The floods in Pakistan, caused several weeks ago by heavy rains, have killed more than 1,600 people and affected about 20 million people. Ten days ago, BBC correspondent Jill McGivering told us about a baby girl called Samina. She’d been born a few days earlier on the roadside after her parents fled the floods. Now Jill went back to Sindh Province to see how the family is faring now. Download MP3

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