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 suffers from cholera epidemic, protests
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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