Haiti cholera outbreak

 
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The cholera outbreak in central Haiti that so far has killed more than 1200 people is the worst health challenge the country faces since the earthquake in January.
 

Health officials said most of the death cases were reported in the Artibonite region, north of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.

They also said at least five people tested positive for cholera in Port-au-Prince, where about 1.3 million survivors of the Jan. 12 earthquake packed in squalid camps.

 

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Haiti, a country devastated by the 7.3-magnitude earthquake which killed about 250,000 people, is now experiencing a serious cholera epidemic, the first in the country in a century. 

 

Haiti has been gravely affected by the epidemic since the first outbreak of the disease detected one month ago in the north of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. [Full story

 

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to step up its response to the growing number of patients in Port-au-Prince experiencing the clinical symptoms of cholera.

As is the case in other MSF health facilities, rising numbers of patients have been admitted to Choscal Hospital, a Haitian Ministry of Public Health hospital in Cité Soleil, due to acute watery diarrhea and vomiting—both of which are symptoms of cholera infection. [Full story]

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