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October 22, 2010
Cholera epidemic hits Haiti
ST. MARC, Haiti (AP) - A cholera epidemic was spreading in central Haiti on Friday as aid groups rushed doctors and supplies to fight the country's deadliest health crisis since January's earthquake. At least 150 people have died and more than 1,500 others are ill. The first two cases of the disease outside the rural Artibonite region were confirmed in Arcahaie, a town that is closer to the quake-devastated capital, Port-au-Prince. Officials are concerned the outbreak could reach the squalid tarp camps where hundreds of thousands of quake survivors live in the capital. Scores of patients lay on the floor awaiting treatment at the St. Nicholas hospital in the seaside city of St. Marc, some of them brushing away flies on mattresses stained with human feces. (22 images)

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The body of a man that, according to doctors, died of cholera lies, on a stretcher at the morgue the St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. An outbreak of cholera in rural central Haiti has killed at least 142 people and sickened hundreds more who overwhelmed the hospital in Saint Marc seeking treatment. AP / Ramon Espinosa


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A man suffering from cholera symptoms lies in the hospital in Marchand Dessalines, Haiti, Friday Oct. 22, 2010. AP / Ramon Espinosa



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Patients with cholera receive medical attention at St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. AP / Ramon Espinosa



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People receive serum at the St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. AP / Dieu Nalio Chery



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A patient with cholera receives medical attention at St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. AP / Ramon Espinosa



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A man, suffering from diarrhea and other cholera symptoms, is cleaned by a woman as he lies next to other sick people at the St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. AP / Ramon Espinosa



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The body of a person, that according to medical staff present, died of cholera is removed at the St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. AP / Ramon Espinosa



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Women hold children with cholera symptoms as they wait for treatment at the St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. AP / Ramon Espinosa



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Patients suffering from diarrhea and other cholera symptoms are helped by other residents as they wait for treatment at the St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. AP / Ramon Espinosa



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Patients with cholera receive medical attention at St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. AP / Ramon Espinosa



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A woman holds her young daughter wile receiving medical attention at St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. AP / Ramon Espinosa



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People receive serum at the parking lot of the St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. AP / Dieu Nalio Chery



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A man suffering from cholera symptoms lies on the floor of the hospital in Marchand Dessalines, Haiti, Friday Oct. 22, 2010. AP / Ramon Espinosa



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People hold serum bags for patients suffering cholera symptoms at St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Friday Oct. 22, 2010. AP / Ramon Espinosa



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Victims wait in queue for medical treatment at a medical facility at the St. Marc hospital October 22, 2010, north of Port-au-Prince. AFP/ Getty Images / Thony Belizaire



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A sick person arrives for medical treatment at a medical facility in St. Marc hospital October 22, 2010. AFP/ Getty Images / Thony Belizaire



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A patient is helped outside St. Nicolas Hospital on October 21, 2010 in St. Marc, Haiti. AFP/ Getty Images / Thony Belizaire



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Patients and families wait outside St. Nicolas Hospital on October 21, 2010 in St. Marc, Haiti. AFP/ Getty Images / Thony Belizaire



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Patients and families wait outside at St. Nicolas Hospital on October 21, 2010 in St. Marc, Haiti. AFP/ Getty Images / Thony Belizaire



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A young woman lies unconscious outside a medical facility on October 21, 2010 in St. Marc, northern Haiti. AFP/ Getty Images / Thony Belizaire



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People watch a U.S. missionary doctor, who did not want to be identified, confirms that the man lying in the bed died of cholera outside a hospital before being transported home in the town of Droin, Haiti, Friday Oct. 22, 2010. AP / Ramon Espinosa



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People carry a coffin containing the remains of a person who allegedly died from cholera in Saint Marc, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. AP / Dieu Nalio Chery



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