Cholera outbreak kills 142 in Haiti
By Jacob Kushner | China Daily | Updated: 2010-10-23 08:07
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Doctors treat a patient outside St Nicholas Hospital on Thursday in St Marc, 96 km north of Port-au-Prince, amid a cholera epidemic that has claimed 142 lives and infected 1,500 people over the last few days. Thony Belizaire / Agence France-Presse |
ST MARC, Haiti - At least 142 people have died in a cholera outbreak, and aid groups are rushing in medicine and other supplies on Friday to combat Haiti's deadliest health problem since its devastating earthquake.
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