Democracy Now! meets with Jonathan Katz, Haiti correspondent for the Associated Press, and Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat in Port-au-Prince.
Full article: Haiti Cholera Outbreak Reaches Port-au-Prince, Congress Continues to Block Release of Aid Funds
News item in Democracy Now! for Nov. 15, 2010:
"The United Nations has appealed for some $160 million in new aid amidst warnings some 270,000 Haitians could fall ill in the coming years."
In case you haven't figured it out, that's over 1/4 million people who could possibly be affected, in a population of around 10 million...
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