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A massive scale-up of humanitarian efforts has led to significant food aid flows into local markets to ease Somalia’s famine conditions, but new fighting between military and the militant Al Shabab group continues posing serious risk to supply aid.
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Testing plans are now in the making for the delivery of 200,000 doses of cholera vaccine for approximately 100,000 people --not enough to stop the cholera, but enough to show the world the vaccine works.
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On Sunday Haitians went to the polls despite challenges to have their voice heard. As the polling stations closed protests took to the streets with widespread talk of fraud.
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Port-au-prince -
Haiti is in urgent need of supplies, nurses and doctors to slow the rapidly increasing death toll from a raging cholera epidemic that international aid operations are struggling to control, the United Nations' top humanitarian official said.
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The news for Haiti just does not get better with time, and while some are asking why the millions of dollars pledged to help Haitians are not having an effect, Haitians have had enough and are rioting in the streets.
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Samaritan's Purse Canada is sending an appeal for help in combating the cholera outbreak in Haiti. Almost 600 people have died and more than 9,000 have been hospitalized.
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Port-au-prince -
The latest OCHA report is out, confirming the rapid mobilization to fight the cholera outbreak in Haiti is -- so far -- working. There are still many people ill with cholera, but the number of new cases reported is slowing.
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Port-au-prince -
Health officials have dreaded the spread of cholera to Haiti's capital, where up to a million people still live in tent cities which lack proper sanitation, and where many people cannot access clean and safe drinking water.
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Port-au-prince -
While Al Jazeera reported that the cholera outbreak appeared to be moving closer to Port-au-Prince and Haiti had not established health check points to help prevent the spread of the disease, the world is rushing in with renewed aid for Haiti.
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After the devastating earthquake that plunged Haiti into crisis in January this year, health and relief agencies feared the outbreak of contagious disease.
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Two years after a devastating earthquake killed thousands of people in Haiti, a cholera epidemic is still infecting 200 people a day around the capital Port-au-Prince.
 Researchers believe it could be years before the origin of an avian cholera outbreak that's killing off eider ducks in Nunavut is known.
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