Cholera outbreak in Haiti
Children await treatment at a medical facility on October 21, 2010 in St. Marc, northern Haiti, amid a cholera epidemic that has claimed 135 lives and infected 1,500 people over the last few days.THONY BELIZAIRE
Family members and victims await treatment at a medical facility on October 21, 2010 in St. Marc, northern Haiti, amid a cholera epidemic that has claimed 135 lives and infected 1,500 people over the last few days.THONY BELIZAIRE
People wash themselves in a street of Cite Soleil (Haiti) on September 25, 2010. An outbreak of diarrhea in quake-hit Haiti has claimed at least 50 lives, local health officials said Thursday. "We have registered 51 or 52 deaths along the Artibonite river which crosses the center and north of the country, " doctor Arial Henry, director of the health minister's office, told AFP. Haiti is still struggling to rebuild after a devastating 7.0 earthquake ravaged the capital, Port-au-Prince, in January, leaving more than 250,000 people dead and another 1.2 million homelessPATRICE COPPEE/AFP / Getty Images
A patient is helped outside St. Nicolas Hospital on October 21, 2010 in St. Marc, 96 Km in the north of Port-au-Prince, amid a cholera epidemic that has claimed 135 lives and infected 1,500 people over the last few days.THONY BELIZAIRE
Family members and victims await treatment at a medical facility on October 21, 2010 in St. Marc, northern Haiti, amid a cholera epidemic that has claimed 135 lives and infected 1,500 people over the last few days.THONY BELIZAIRE
Victims and families wait at a medical facility on October 21, 2010 in St. Marc, northern Haiti, amid a cholera epidemic that has claimed 135 lives and infected 1,500 people over the last few days.THONY BELIZAIRE
A young woman lies unconscious outside a medical facility on October 21, 2010 in St. Marc, northern Haiti, amid a cholera epidemic that has claimed 135 lives and infected 1,500 people over the last few days.THONY BELIZAIRE