Nov 22, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE - HAITI'S raging cholera epidemic showed no sign of relenting on Sunday with the death toll rising to 1,250, amid debate over whether to delay next week's key election until the outbreak is brought under control.
Aid groups sought to ramp up their work in the wake of deadly violence which had hampered the anti-cholera battle, while the United Nations starkly warned that the global community has lagged in its assistance since the epidemic began in October.
'The number of (cholera) focal points of infection are increasing, and those that appeared a month ago are not extinguished,' said French doctor Gerard Chevallier, a cholera specialist studying the epidemic and advising Haiti's Health Ministry.
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