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Cholera found in Haitian capital

2010-10-24 1 Dailymotion

<p><br /> Five cases of Cholera have been detected in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, the UN says, amid an outbreak that has killed more than 200 people.<br /> </p><p><br /> UN spokeswoman Imogen Wall told the Reuters that the cases had been quickly diagnosed and isolated.<br /> </p><p><br /> She said they had been infected in the main outbreak zone - the Artibonite region - and had subsequently travelled to the capital, where they fell ill.<br /> </p><p><br /> This meant Port-au-Prince was "not a new location of infection", she noted.<br /> </p><p><br /> Earlier, Ms Wall said the prospect of cholera in the city, where more than a million survivors of January's earthquake are living in tents, was "awful".<br /> </p><p><br /> Health officials said at least 208 people had died and 2,674 others were infected in an outbreak mostly centered in the Artibonite region north of the capital.<br /> </p><p><br /> Cholera causes diarrhoea and vomiting leading to severe dehydration, and can kill quickly if left untreated though rehydration and antibiotics.<br /> </p>

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