Haiti cholera epidemic said to ease
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A cholera outbreak showed signs of easing yesterday after killing more than 250 people in a sweep through central Haiti, but specialists warned that the earthquake-devastated country’s first bout with the disease in decades is far from over. Aid groups were joining the government in a race to purify water and warn people throughout the countryside and the capital, Port-au-Prince, where the Jan. 12 earthquake left more than a million survivors in squalid stick-and-tarp camps that are ripe for the waterborne disease. “The worst part is over, but you can always have a new spike of cholera,” said the Health Ministry director, Gabriel Timothee. He…
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