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Health Crisis In Haiti Enters Deadly New Phase
Haiti’s health crisis has entered a deadly new phase that has officials scrambling to vaccine a half million children.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (February 10, 2010)--Diarrheal illnesses, acute respiratory infections and malnutrition are beginning to claim the lives of dozens of Haiti's earthquake survivors and health officials who are fearful of contagious disease outbreak are rushing to vaccinate more than half a million children against measles, diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough.
Some 300,000 people were injured in the earthquake and the number of amputees, estimated in the thousands, keeps rising because of untreated fractures.
Food shortage violence is also producing casualties.
One doctor said he treats several gunshot wounds a day.
The United Nations is working to compile data on the number of deaths not directly caused by the quake that rocked the country on Jan. 12.
Haiti's government has raised the death toll for the earthquake to 230,000.
