earthquake survivors

Cholera outbreak creeps closer to Haiti’s capital (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

Children suffering cholera symptoms receive serum at a hospital in Marchand Dessalines, 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 spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts Saturday hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps…

5 killed as storm blasts through Haiti tent camps (AP)

September 25th, 2010

An earthquake survivor tries to set up her tent after it fell down due to heavy rain in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Powerful winds from a rainstorm tore down trees, billboards and the tent homes of earthquake survivors. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - A freak storm blasted through Haiti’s capital on Friday, killing at least five earthquake survivors as it tore down trees, billboards and tent homes, authorities said.


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Work in China’s quake zone switches to rebuilding (AP)

April 19th, 2010

Tibetan children sit inside their temporary makeshift school as they wait for class to start in earthquake-hit Yushu county, northwest China's Qinghai province, Monday, April 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Heavy construction machinery and trucks carrying aid to earthquake survivors clogged streets Monday morning as this shattered town in remote western China turned to rebuilding, and search teams…