With 15 cases confirmed in Port-au-Prince and more suspected, health officials are in a race to contain the epidemic, AND GLOBAL HELP IS NEEDED (capitalized words are mine-Mac)!
At least 120 suspected cases of cholera are being examined in Haiti's capital, the most significant warning sign yet that the epidemic has spread from outlying areas to threaten as many as three million people.
Health officials told Al Jazeera on Monday that 15 cases have been confirmed in Port-au-Prince.
Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tayb, reporting from Port-au-Prince, said that while it's unclear if these cases are locally acquired, what's almost certain is that the numbers will get bigger.
Samples from patients in Port-au-Prince are being tested in a laboratory to confirm the presence of vibrio cholera bacteria, which has already killed at least 544 people in Haiti, said Gabriel Timothee, the health ministry's executive director.
If confirmed, the bacteria could imperil an estimated 2.5 to 3 million inhabitants, nearly half of whom have been living in tents or under tarps in easily flooded encampments since their houses were destroyed in the January 12 earthquake............
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