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Cholera concerns grow in Haiti following hurricane

Two weeks after Hurricane Matthew cut through Haiti, cholera is a growing threat to those who survived the storm.
  
Officials counted 773 cases of cholera in the Caribbean country, but the actual number of infected Haitians may be higher.  
  
The Category 4 storm destroyed countless buildings, including cholera treatment centers.
  
The water-borne illness has flared in the hardest hit areas after floods contaminated drinking water in the southwest.
 
The World Health Organization (WHO) this week said that it would send one million cholera vaccine doses to the country.
  
Haiti suffered another post-disaster cholera outbreak in 2010, after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck just west of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
  
More than 250,000 homes were destroyed and more than 100,000 people died in the earthquake.



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