More than 200 die from cholera in Haiti

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More than 200 die from cholera in Haiti

A CHOLERA epidemic has claimed the lives of more than 200 people in Haiti, a top health ministry official said Saturday.

"We have recorded more than 208 dead," Gabriel Thimote, the ministry's director general, said at a news conference.

He said most of the victims were in the rural Artibonite region of central Haiti, the focus of the quake-ravaged country's first cholera outbreak in over a century.

More than 3000 people were being treated at hospitals and medical centres around the country, in many cases overwhelming available medical personnel, Haitian health authorities said.

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