PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 600 people in Haiti has gained a foothold in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince and is expected to spread widely and quickly in the sprawling city of 3 million people, health authorities said today.
The three-week-old epidemic, which had mostly hit Haiti’s rural central regions so far, now menaced crowded slum areas of the capital,
