Cholera takes hold in besieged capital
5:30 AM Friday Nov 12, 2010 Share Email Print Expand Shrink A wooden wheelbarrow is pushed to the high green gates of a slum hospital, carrying an unconscious woman, her lips white and cracked with dehydration. She is 22, and two days ago she was healthy. The concrete passageway leading to the hospital is filled with victims of the cholera epidemic that has entered Haiti’s capital. Three weeks after it was confirmed for the first time in Haiti, the waterborne sickness has claimed at least 643 lives, mostly in the countryside. If yesterday’s traffic is any indication, cholera is growing fast in the seething slum of Cite Soleil and perhaps all of Port-au-Prince, a city of more than 2.5…
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