UN revises Haiti cholera estimates (spreading faster)

[ChangoLoa]

aiti's deadly cholera epidemic is spreading faster than originally estimated and could result in hundreds of thousands of cases, a senior UN official has said.

The disease has killed about 1,400 people since it first appeared in mid-October.

But Nigel Fisher, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator in Haiti, said on Tuesday that the real death toll might be "closer to two thousand than one" because of lack of data from remote areas, and the number of cases 60,000-70,000 instead of the official figure of about 50,000.

Fisher said experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) were now revising their estimate that the disease would cause 200,000 cases within six months.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/11/201011240329751496.html