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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Evens Sanon

Haiti reports cholera deaths for first time in 3 years

Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Haiti’s government on Sunday announced that at least eight people have died from cholera, raising concerns about another potentially catastrophic epidemic like the one that broke out a decade ago and killed nearly 10,000 people.

The cases - the first cholera deaths reported in three years - came in a community called Dekayet in southern Port-au-Prince and in the gang-controlled seaside slum of Cite de Soleil, where thousands of people live in cramped, unsanitary conditions.

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