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Cholera in Haiti (17 photos)
Scenes from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, reminiscent of the paintings of the medieval plague in Europe. Teams of employees of the Ministry of Health of the country every evening collected in the streets of the corpses of people who died of cholera. The main cause of infection is low-quality water, and lack of compliance with basic health standards slum dwellers. Experts predict the international organizations epedimeyu terrible scale - cholera outbreak in Haiti could reach up to 200 thousand people.