Earlier this week, President Rene Preval confirmed that Haiti was suffering its first cholera epidemic in a century. Over 1,500 people have been reported, and 142 people have died, as of Friday morning. The outbreak, which is causing some Haitians to die in a matter of hours from extreme dehydration, is centered in the Lower Artibonite and Central Plateau regions, north of Port-au-Prince. If the virus finds its way to the capital, where 1.5 million people remain huddled in conditions not much better today than just after the January earthquake, it could prove devastating.
