Haiti Sees Spike in Cholera Deaths (917 Dead)

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Al-Jazeera
14 Nov 2010

The death toll from Haiti's cholera outbreak has soared to 917 as officials struggle to contain the growing epidemic threatening the quake-ravaged country.

The previous official toll announced two days earlier was 796.

Authorities on Sunday said 14,642 people had been treated in hospitals since the disease took hold in the desperately poor Caribbean nation.

Officials fear the scale of the epidemic could increase exponentially if cholera infiltrates makeshift camps in the capital city of Port-au-Prince, where hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors live in cramped and unsanitary conditions.

A January earthquake flattened much of the capital, leaving more than 250,000 people dead and an estimated 1.3 million of Haiti's 10 million population displaced.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/11/20101114153515676688.html

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AP Photo Relatives carry the coffin of Monitha Silney, 12, who died of cholera, to the cemetery for burial in the Cite Soleil slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Nov. 14, 2010. Thousands of people have been hospitalized for cholera across Haiti with symptoms including serious diarrhea, vomiting and fever and hundreds have died.





AP Photo A woman suffering cholera symptoms is carried away from the hospital in the Cite Soleil slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Nov. 14, 2010. Thousands of people have been hospitalized for cholera across Haiti with symptoms including serious diarrhea, vomiting and fever and hundreds have died.