Cholera confirmed for resident of Haiti's capital
source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/08/AR2010110804206.html?hpid=mo...
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The cholera epidemic has spread into Haiti's capital, imperiling nearly 3 million people living in Port-au-Prince, nearly half of them in unsanitary tent camps for the homeless from the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Health authorities told The Associated Press on Monday that tests confirmed a 3-year-old boy who hadn't been out of the city had caught the disease. More than 100 other suspected cholera cases among city residents also were being tested.
The outbreak has already killed at least 544 people in Haiti, Health Ministry Executive Director Gabriel Timothee told the AP.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/08/AR2010110804206....
Health authorities told The Associated Press on Monday that tests confirmed a 3-year-old boy who hadn't been out of the city had caught the disease. More than 100 other suspected cholera cases among city residents also were being tested.
The outbreak has already killed at least 544 people in Haiti, Health Ministry Executive Director Gabriel Timothee told the AP.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/08/AR2010110804206....
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