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18 NOVEMBER 2010 - PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: Women do laundry in a stream running through a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday morning. 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
