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Cholera epidemic spreads in Haiti; Nearly 200 dead (AP)

People watch a US missionary doctor, who did not want to be identified, confirm 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.  An outbreak of cholera in rural central Haiti has killed at least 142 people and sickened hundreds more. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - A cholera epidemic spread in central Haiti on Friday as aid groups rushed doctors and supplies to fight the country’s worst health crisis since January’s earthquake. Nearly 200 deaths had been confirmed and more than 2,000 people were ill.


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