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 yesterday.
The three-week-old epidemic, which had mostly hit Haiti’s rural central regions so far, now menaced crowded slum areas of the capital, as well as tent and tarpaulin camps there housing more than 1.3 million survivors of the Jan. 12 quake. “The disease has reached the metropolitan area,”
