Cholera Epidemic Stalks Haiti

18 NOVEMBER 2010 - PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: A woman and her daughter wait to be seen by medics at a Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF - Doctors Without Borders) cholera stabilization center in Cite Soliel in Port-au-Prince. The woman feared her daughter has cholera. Cite Soleil, a sprawling slum area in PAP is ground zero for the cholera epidemic in the Haitian capital. An outbreak of cholera in northern Haiti about a month ago has spread across the nation. Tens of thousands of people have been hospitalized and treated for cholera and more than 1,100 have died. Cholera is a water borne illness that causes severe diarrhea and death by dehydration in a matter of hours. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ choleraepidemic

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18 NOVEMBER 2010 - PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: A woman and her daughter wait to be seen by medics at a Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF - Doctors Without Borders) cholera stabilization center in Cite Soliel in Port-au-Prince. The woman feared her daughter has cholera. Cite Soleil, a sprawling slum area in PAP is ground zero for the cholera epidemic in the Haitian capital. An outbreak of cholera in northern Haiti about a month ago has spread across the nation. Tens of thousands of people have been hospitalized and treated for cholera and more than 1,100 have died. Cholera is a water borne illness that causes severe diarrhea and death by dehydration in a matter of hours. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ choleraepidemic