Science and Health
Patients crowd as cholera kills 259 in Haiti
(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-10-26 10:52
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 Patients with cholera lie on mats on the floor of the overcrowded St. Nicholas Hospital in St. Marc, the center of the cholera epidemic in Haiti where Medecins Sans Frontiere and Cuban doctors are treating those infected, Oct 25, 2010. The rate of deaths in Haiti's cholera epidemic slowed on Monday as a multinational medical operation scaled up to limit the spread of an outbreak that has killed 259 people in the earthquake-hit country. [Photo/Agencies] |
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 A young girl with cholera lies on a bed at St. Nicholas Hospital in St. Marc, the center of the cholera epidemic in Haiti where Medecins Sans Frontiere and Cuban doctors are treating those infected, Oct 25, 2010. [Photo/Agencies] |