Cholera in Zimbabwe, an old scourge

This really boggles my mind. 231 million percent inflation? That was months ago. It's now 8,000,000,000,000,000,000. Percent.

Cholera Is Raging, Despite Denial by Mugabe:

"The capital’s two largest hospitals, sprawling facilities that once would have provided sophisticated care in just such a crisis, had largely shut down weeks earlier after doctors and nurses, their salaries rendered virtually worthless by the nation’s crippling hyperinflation, simply stopped coming to work.

Inflation officially hit 231 million percent in July, but John Robertson, an independent economist in Zimbabwe, estimates that it has now surged to an astounding percentage rate: 8 followed by 18 zeros."