Cholera outbreak hits Haiti: 135 dead
A cholera outbreak in Haiti, still reeling from a powerful January earthquake, has killed 135 people in recent days, a health official said Thursday.
Claude Surena, president of the Haitian Medical Association, said in addition to the deaths, the disease has sickened about 1,500 other people, Haiti's sources reported.
A hospital in Saint-Marc was inundated with cholera patients, with some being treated on the floor and others waiting in agony for hours to be helped.
Hundreds of people showed up at the Hospital Saint-Nicolas, north of Port-au-Prince, overwhelming the staff.
Dr. Jean-Robert Pierre-Louis at the Hospital of Saint-Marc said the facility was faced with an outbreak of "profuse diarrhea causing rapid dehydration that causes the death of patients of all ages."