PORT-SALUT (HAITI) - A week after being devastated by a hurricane, Haiti faces a growing cholera outbreak that threatens to turn its disaster even more deadly. Civil defense officials have put the death toll from the hurricane itself at 336, although some officials said it topped 400. - 'Fatal danger' -Dr. Stevenson Desravines, the director of the Port Salut hospital, told AFP that cholera was rapidly becoming a "fatal danger" for the town and surrounding area. Before the cholera death, the hospital had registered three patients deceased from their injuries sustained last Tuesday when the storm struck with tremendous fury. But after he spoke the cholera death occurred in the hospital, galvanizing staff and focusing attention on the new threat.

Source: Bangkok Post October 09, 2016 19:41 UTC