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A sudden cholera epidemic has killed 220 people, officials said Saturday as Haiti scrambled to contain a wider outbreak 10 months after an earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — A cholera outbreak that already has left 250 people dead and more than 3,000 sickened is at the doorstep of an enormous potential breeding ground: the squalid camps in Port-au-Prince where 1.3 million earthquake survivors live. Health authorities and aid workers are scra…

The earthquake that devastated Haiti’s capital and killed as many as 300,000 people in January may have been caused by an unseen fault and pressure could be building for another quake, seismic experts said on Sunday.

The confirmation of five cholera cases in Haiti’s capital is a “very worrying development,” a U.N. spokeswoman told CNN.

Quake-hit Haiti and its aid partners fought on Friday to stem a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 200 people and sickened more than 2,000, and officials expect to see more cases before it is contained.

The deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti is likely to get much worse, health experts said as relief supplies were rushed to the quake-stricken country in a struggle to ward off an epidemic.

A sudden cholera epidemic has killed more than 208 people, officials said Saturday as Haiti scrambled to contain a wider outbreak 10 months after an earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation.

Quake-hit Haiti and its aid partners fought on Friday to stem a cholera epidemic that has killed over 150 people and sickened hundreds, with experts saying more cases could be expected before it was contained.

The cholera outbreak in Haiti blamed for 135 deaths is of a strain that is the most dangerous, Health Minister Alex Larsen said Friday as the government and relief groups scrambled to battle the disease.

Quake-hit Haiti and its aid partners fought Friday to stem a cholera epidemic that has killed at least 140 people and sickened hundreds as experts said more cases could be expected before it was contained.