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In the shadow of the devastation, homelessness and disease that remain in Haiti after January’s devastating earthquake, there is beauty and art.

Medical workers in Haiti on Friday called the upward trend in deaths and illnesses in the cholera outbreak “alarming” as the earthquake-devastated nation’s already strained health system overflowed with the sick.

The first portion of U.S. reconstruction money for Haiti is on its way more than seven months after it was promised to help the country rebuild from the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Haiti’s cholera crisis deepened on Thursday as the toll soared again and three more deaths in the teeming capital raised fears the epidemic could be set to explode in unsanitary camps full of earthquake survivors.

Haiti desperately sought on Wednesday to halt a cholera epidemic that threatens to spiral out of control after reaching the capital’s crowded slums, where 73 cases and one death have so far been recorded.

Aid groups fought Thursday to halt the spread of cholera in Haiti’s teeming capital, where makeshift camps crammed with earthquake survivors are ripe ground for the epidemic to take hold.

Source: AlertNet

Haitian officials confirm scores of people are being treated for cholera in the capital, amid warnings it will take years to rid the country of the disease.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Nov. 11 (UPI) — The death toll from the cholera outbreak in Haiti has reached 643 with just under 10,000 cases of the disease reported, the United Nations says.

Fears are growing in Haiti over the spread of cholera, as the death toll rises to 644 across the poverty-stricken nation.