Cholera continues to worsen in Haiti
Sunday, November 14, 2010 - 00:50
in Health & Medicine
The official death count is around 800, but many fatalities are likely going unrecorded in mountainous areas that are far from hospitals. The U.N. asks for help.In the Haitian city of Gonaives, freshly dug pits at the back of the main cemetery are filling up with dozens of victims. In the capital, Port-au-Prince, hospitals are fast becoming emergency clinics. And in remote villages across much of the country, no one knows how many are dying.
