Haiti Tries to Keep Cholera Out of City -- Officials Worry What Would Happen If Disease Hit Capital

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A cholera outbreak that already has left 250 people dead and more than 3,000 sickened is at the doorstep of an enormous potential breeding ground: the squalid camps in Port-au- Prince where 1.3 million earthquake survivors live.

Health authorities and aid workers are scrambling to keep the tragedies from merging and the deaths from multiplying.

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Haiti Tries to Keep Cholera Out of City -- Officials Worry What Would Happen If Disease Hit Capital

Five cholera patients have been reported in Haiti's capital, heightening worries that the disease could r...

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