November 20, 2010 12:57 PM

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76 more succumb to cholera outbreak in Haiti

In Haiti, 76 more people have died of cholera, raising the total number of victims to 1,186 since the first outbreak of the disease, detected one month ago in north of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. More than 19,000 people remain hospitalised. In Port-au-Prince, hundreds of thousands of people survive in improvised tents and in precarious sanitary conditions since January 12 earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale shook the country.The efforts to contain the cholera epidemic now face a series of disturbances in the streets of the capital where hundreds of people continue to clash with UN soldiers.The protesters blame the UN soldiers for bringing the cholera epidemic to the country.

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