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The new health ministry figures, the latest since Friday, come one month after the outbreak was first detected north of the capital. It has now spread to Port-au-Prince, where hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors are living in squalid tent cities with poor sanitation.
The ministry said 64 people have died in Port-au-Prince, including 20 children under age five, but the hardest-hit region remained Artibonite, where the first cases were detected in October.
Efforts to contain the cholera — which can lead to diarrhea and dehydration that can kill within hours if untreated — have been hampered in recent days due to rioting in the capital, where hundreds of people clashed with UN troops whom they blame for importing the disease.-AFP
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