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Haiti cholera death toll surges past 1,500

The death toll from Haiti's cholera epidemic rose to 1,523 today,up from 1,415 over two days,officials said.

The death toll from Haiti’s cholera epidemic rose to 1,523 today,up from 1,415 over two days,officials said.

The outbreak has sent 27,933 people into hospitals for treatment in just over a month.

To date,140 have died of the virulent diarrheal disease in the destroyed capital of Port-au-Prince,where more than one million people are living in sprawling tent cities since a January earthquake. Officials fear the disease could spread quickly there because residents have little access to proper sanitation.

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