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Cholera death toll hits 650 in Haiti
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Cholera has continued to spread across the island nation of Haiti, killing at least 650 people, RTT News reported.

The cholera outbreak began last month in a rural region north of Port-au-Prince.

The lower Artibonite region is the worst affected area with more than 450 deaths reported, the article stated.

The disease has now spread to the nation’s capital and a team of “Doctors Without Borders” is currently treating patients in Port-au-Prince suffering from acute fever, vomiting and diarrhea, according to the report.

Poor sanitary conditions and a lack of clean drinking water, which resulted from a devastating earthquake last January, are thought to be the primary causes of the cholera outbreak.

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