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Haiti aid group warns of cholera surge
February 24, 2012 1:13 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A Haiti aid group warns on the eve of the rainy season that the Caribbean nation will likely see a surge in cholera cases. Paul Farmer of the Boston-based group Partners in Health writes in an email Friday that Haiti could see a spike like the... more » -
Disease kills dozens in flooded Philippines
October 22, 2009 4:55 PM
The World Health Organization will send an emergency team to help the Philippines fight a bacterial disease outbreak that has killed at least 148 people and sickened nearly 2,000 in and around the flood-hit capital, officials said Thursday. Outbreaks of leptospirosis, spread by water contaminated with the urine of... more »
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