Haiti Death Toll Climbs Above 1,200 -- The Telegraph
Health officials on Sunday reported 64 new deaths in Haiti's worsening cholera epidemic, which has now claimed 1,250 lives and seen more than 20,000 people treated in hospital.
The new health ministry figures, the latest since Friday, come one month after the outbreak was first detected north of the capital. It has now spread to Port-au-Prince, where hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors are living in squalid tent cities with poor sanitation.
The ministry said 64 people have died in Port-au-Prince, including 20 children under age five, but the hardest-hit region remained Artibonite, where the first cases were detected in October.
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Health Care Officials in Haiti say Cholera Easily Treated -- Voice of America
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