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Haiti cholera toll surpasses 2,000 mark
 The corpse count from a cholera outbreak in quake-stricken Haiti has surged to over 2,000 and almost 90,000 cases of the disease have been recorded, the health ministry says.Ever since the disease was first detected in mid-October, corpse count has continued to climb steadily and the number of infections has not reduced so far. According to official figures released on Monday, 2,013 people have died from the water-borne bacterial infection and 88,789 cases have been recorded. Experts believe that the actual numbers can be much higher. The spread of the disease has been intensified by poor living conditions and the lack of decent medical facilities following an earthquake less than a year ago which almost flattened capital Port-au-Prince and claimed over 250,000 lives. Some 1.3 million people displaced by the quake are still living in squalid tent cities in the capital and hundreds of thousands more live in sprawling and sometimes violent slums. The World Health Organization has warned that the deadly illness will inevitably spread to other countries in the Caribbean. Posted by: Fred 2010-12-07 |
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