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Deadly Cholera Outbreak Claims 135 Lives in Haiti
The epidemic has grown in the past few days but has not yet reached the major displaced persons camps in and around the capital Port-au-Prince, which was ravaged by a 7.0 earthquake in January that left 1.2 million people homeless.
But officials fear an outbreak in densely populated tent cities that have poor sanitation and meager medical facilities has the potential of unleashing a public health disaster.
"According to the results of the analysis carried out in the laboratory it is cholera," Claude Surena, president of the Haitian Medical Association confirmed to AFP of the outbreak in Saint Marc, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of the capital.
Health officials contacted by AFP said most of the deaths were along the Artibonite river that crosses the center and north of the country.
Doctors earlier said 26 deaths had been registered and more than 400 people hospitalized, but the figures continued to rise throughout the day.
Across the most affected region of Artibonite, some 80 deaths have been counted so far, medical sources said.
"Hospitals and medical centers in the region are overwhelmed and numerous deaths have been registered," said Gabriel Timothe, director general of the Haitian health ministry.
"There are several hundred people in hospital, and we are evacuating a number of the sick patients to other centers," he added.
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