Fear grows as cholera reaches Haiti’s capital
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) – Cholera reached the Haitian capital with 73 recorded cases and a first death raising fears the epidemic could spread through the city's sprawling slums and spiral out of control. “The epidemic of cholera, a highly contagious disease, is no longer a simple emergency, it's now a matter of national security,” the director of the Haiti's health ministry, Gabriel Thimote, told a press conference. Desperate scenes were described in the northern town of Gonaives where some 60 people were said to have died in the past few days, many of them villagers who couldn't make it to hospital as taxis wouldn't take them. “Sick people died on the…
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Fear grows as cholera reaches Haiti’s capital
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