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Hundreds dead in Haiti cholera outbreak (dubbed)
Haiti is once again in the grip of a cholera outbreak which has already killed hundreds, most of them children. And it is just the latest tragedy of a never ending series of humanitarian crises. Since the president was assassinated last summer the security situation in the country has deteriorated, with the government there calling…
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Haiti cholera outbreak: one boy’s story
An 11-year-old boy caught up in the cholera outbreak in Haiti tells his story to Save the Children’s Elysia Nisan for Channel 4 News.
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Haiti cholera: aid response ‘inadequate’
An international aid agency says it cannot cope with the increasing number of cholera cases in Haiti. Médecins Sans Frontières says the response has been inadequate and must be stepped up.
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Haiti cholera violence targets UN peacekeepers
Protests in Haiti over the death toll of the cholera epidemic have moved to the capital Port-Au-Prince, where demonstrators are confronting UN peacekeepers outside the Presidential Palace.
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Haiti cholera epidemic reaches Dominican Republic
Fears are growing that Haiti’s cholera epidemic has spread to neighbouring Dominican Republic after health officials confirmed a man was hospitalised with the condition yesterday.
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Haiti cholera: the importance of education
More than a week after Hurricane Tomas swept through Haiti an international aid worker tells Channel 4 News the battle against cholera remains as urgent as ever.
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Haiti cholera could hit ‘hundreds of thousands’
The spreading cholera epidemic in Haiti could see up to 270,000 people infected within a year, a Pan American Health Organisation spokesman tells Channel 4 News.
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Haiti cholera: hospitals running out of space
Hospitals are running out of space to treat patients as the cholera epidemic in Haiti spreads. A doctor tells Channel 4 News about fighting the disease on the front line in Port-au-Prince.
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Haiti cholera death toll tops 250
More than 250 people have been killed in an outbreak of cholera which hit the Haitian capital at the weekend, but the government says a multinational response has slowed the epidemic.
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Haiti cholera outbreak hits Port-au-Prince
As Haiti fights a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 200 people and now spread to the capital, Oxfam tells Channel 4 News it has ramped up its presence and “everyone is on high alert”.
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Cholera crisis in Haiti, four years after the earthquake
UN soldiers are thought to have inadvertently started a cholera epidemic in the poverty-stricken island. Channel 4 News reports from the beleaguered country – four years after the earthquake.
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Cholera epidemic: Haiti protesters attack medics
The UN tells Channel 4 News that protesters in Haiti have attacked foreign medics at a hospital, as shocking pictures of the cholera epidemic emerge, writes Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller.
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Cholera-hit Haiti braced for tropical storm Tomas
Just ten months after the devastating earthquake, Channel 4 News reports from cholera-hit Haiti as the country is put on high alert for Tropical Storm Tomas.
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Deadly cholera outbreak hits Haiti
A cholera epidemic has killed at least 138 people in central Haiti, President Rene Preval has confirmed.
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Sandy’s aftermath: electrical failures, flooding and cholera
Power outages, blocked roads and flooding still plague thousands cleaning up in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy where the combined death toll has risen to more than 170.
