Friday, October 22, 2010

Diarrhea outbreak kills over 130 in Haiti

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SANTO DOMINGO, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- More than 130 people have died in a recent diarrhea outbreak in Haiti, health authorities there said Thursday.

According to information reaching here from Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, authorities said that the deaths were registered in rural areas in different parts of the country.

The cause of the outbreak has not been confirmed yet, but a health ministry official told press that "the first results from the lab tests show that there is cholera, but we do not know which type."

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