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ST. MARC, Haiti — At least 150 people have died in a cholera outbreak, and aid groups are rushing in medicine and other supplies Friday to combat Haiti’s deadliest health problem since its devastating earthquake.
The World Health Organization said the virulent diarrheal disease, which had affected 1,526 people as of late Thursday, would be the first cholera epidemic in a century in the disaster-prone Caribbean nation, already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
“This outbreak is likely to get much larger, given our experience with cholera epidemics in the past, particularly in a population that has no protective immunity,” Dr. Jon K. Andrus, deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization, said during a briefing Friday afternoon.
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The Red Cross and other humanitarian agencies were rushing doctors, medical supplies and clean water to Saint-Marc in the Artibonite region, the outbreak zone north of Port-au-Prince. No cases were immediately reported in the crowded capital.