What's going on: Cholera outbreak threatens Haitian capital

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Ramon Espinosa / The Associated PressA child suffering cholera symptoms cries as she is comforted by a woman at a hospital in Grande-Saline, Haiti, Saturday Oct. 23, 2010. A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts Saturday hoping to keep the disease from reaching the camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince. Health officials said at least 208 people had died.

From The New York Times:

With the number of dead rising above 200, health officials battling a cholera outbreak in Haiti grew ever more pessimistic Saturday that the disease could be contained to a rural area and braced for a medical disaster in the capital.

Haitian officials have confirmed 208 dead and a total of 2,674 cases, but with people streaming into hospitals and clinics and suspected cases far from the outbreak’s epicenter — in St.-Marc, 60 miles north of the capital, Port-au-Prince — doctors were certain the toll would rise.

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