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Reuters
Reuters
Health
By Sarah Morland

UNICEF study shows kids make up 40% of Haiti's cholera cases

FILE PHOTO: Children play with a broken doll at the Hugo Chavez Square where they shelter from gang war violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti October 16, 2022. REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo/File Photo

Some two in five of Haiti's growing number of cholera cases are among children, the United Nation's children's agency warned on Wednesday, saying youth suffering from severe malnutrition ran three times the risk of dying from the bacterial disease.

Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, has suffered a series of disasters in recent years, including a presidential assassination last year followed by a massive earthquake.

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