Community | November 16, 2010 | 12 comments

As cholera worsens, violence breaks out in Haiti

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The death toll is quickly approaching 1,000 and health workers worry that its impact on earthquake-torn Port-au-Prince will be grave. The United Nations estimates that as many as 200,000 people could be sickened within six to 12 months.

Anger over the cholera outbreak has led to violent demonstrations today as protesters set fire to a police station and clashed with U.N. forces in Cap-Haitien, a city on the north coast. One protester was killed. Many Haitians blame a Nepalese U.N. contingent for causing the outbreak when sewage from their camp leaked into the Artibonite.
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    Community,   News and Politics,   Water Is Life,   Indigenous
  2. tags:
    Violence,  Haiti,  Haiti earthquake,  Cholera
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