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Cholera Deaths In Haiti Top 900; U.N. Appeals For $164M To Deal With Outbreak That Could Affect 200,000
Haiti's Health Ministry on Sunday said 917 cholera deaths had been reported in the country as of Friday and more than 14,600 people had been hospitalized, according to an update on the ministry's website, Reuters reports. The disease has been detected in six of the country's 10 provinces, according to the Health Ministry. "The central rural province of Artibonite, the epicenter of the epidemic, remained the worst affected, accounting for nearly 600 of the total deaths," the news service writes. As of November 12, authorities had recorded 27 deaths in the capital city of Port-au-Prince (11/14).
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