Cholera -- Haiti
More than 6 years after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake set the stage for a cholera outbreak in Haiti, people in the resource-poor West Indies nation are still in danger of being infected, researchers said. Results of their study, presented at the CDC's Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Conference, suggest that rural residents are particularly at risk for infection.
On 12 January 2010, a devastating earthquake killed more than 200 000 in Haiti. A cholera outbreak soon followed the worst
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