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  1. A girl with cholera symptoms rests in a local hospital in Limbe village near Cap Haitien, Haiti, Nov. 23. Haiti will hold elections on Nov. 28 in the midst of a month-old cholera epidemic that has killed at least 1,300 people and hospitalized thousands. (Emilio Morenatti / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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    A resident holds packets of water to sell in downtown Port-au-Prince, Nov. 23. Aid supplies to combat Haiti's deadly cholera epidemic are flowing again into the country's northern regions after protests by Haitians blaming U.N. troops for the outbreak, humanitarian groups said on Sunday. (Eduardo Munoz / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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    Claudy Bien-Aime, who is suffering from symptoms of cholera, is driven to a treatment facility run by Doctors without Borders, Nov. 23, in Port-au-Prince. Doctors say cholera is caused by poor sanitary conditions that make the bacteria easy to transmit through contaminated water or food. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
  4. People suffering cholera symptoms are treated in a sports center converted into a cholera treatment center in Cap Haitien, Haiti, Nov. 23. (Emilio Morenatti / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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    Pan American Health Organization Deputy Director Jon Andrus speaks during a press briefing on the Haitian cholera outbreak at the organization's headquarters in Washington, DC, Nov. 23. Haitian health officials said at least 1,344 people have died from a worsening cholera epidemic that has ravaged the country since mid-October. (Jim Watson / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
  6. A resident carries eggs while he walks past a refuse-clogged canal in downtown Port-au-Prince, Nov. 23. (Eduardo Munoz / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
  7. A health worker is disinfected on Nov. 22 in Port-au-Prince. The city is seen as being particularly at risk for widespread infection because of the crowded and unsanitary conditions endured by tens of thousands of people who have been sheltering in squalid, makeshift tent cities since an earthquake last January. (Hector Retamal / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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    A girl suffering cholera symptoms waits for treatment at a sports center that has been converted into a cholera treatment center in Cap Haitien, Haiti, Nov. 23, 2010. (Emilio Morenatti / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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    The body of Ana Luis Goerges, 75, who died of cholera, lies wrapped in a sheet as she is taken to the morgue from a local hospital in Limbe village near Cap Haitien, Haiti, Tuesday Nov. 23. (Emilio Morenatti / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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    A woman suffering from cholera rests at Ste. Therese hospital in Hinche on Nov. 20. Four Haitian presidential candidates called for a delay in elections set for Nov. 28 as the country struggles with a cholera epidemic that has claimed nearly 1,300 lives. (Hector Retamal / AFP - Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
  11. Cemetery workers dug a pit to bury the body of a cholera victim Cap Haitian, Haiti, on Nov. 20. Thousands of people have been hospitalized for cholera across Haiti with symptoms including diarrhea, vomiting and fever. At least another 1,100 people have died. (Dieu Nalio Chery / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
  12. A relative of Stephanie Sanbronce, 17, who died of cholera, reacts as workers of Haiti's Health Ministry, unseen, remove her body from her house in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Nov. 20. (Emilio Morenatti / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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    A Haitian girl with cholera symptoms is doused with water as she grimaces at an improvised clinic run by Doctor without Borders in Port-au-Prince on Nov. 20. (Eduardo Munoz / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
  14. A worker from the Red Cross burns medical supplies used to control cholera next to a clinic in Port-au-Prince on Nov. 20. (Eduardo Munoz / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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    A worker of Haiti's Health Ministry throws a glove into a mass grave where bodies of victims of the cholera outbreak will be buried on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Nov. 20. (Emilio Morenatti / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
  16. A woman suffering from symptoms of cholera is helped after arriving at a health clinic in the Cite-Soli neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Nov. 19. A cholera epidemic has killed more than 1,100 people in recent weeks. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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    Fifteen-month-old twins with cholera are held by their mother and sister as they receive intravenous therapy at a cholera clinic set up by Medecins sans Frontieres in the Tabarre neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Nov. 19. (Allison Shelley / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
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    A UN peacekeeper from Brazil shoots tear gas to demonstrators during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Nov. 18. (Ramon Espinosa / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
  19. A group of protesters burn a political campaign banner of presidencial candidate Judes Celestin, during protests against the United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti, Nov. 18. (Andres Martinez Casares / EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
  20. A boy suffering cholera symptoms is carried in a wheelbarrow to the St. Catherine hospital, run by Doctors Without Borders, in the slum of Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, on Nov. 18. (Emilio Morenatti / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
  21. A man sells water in the street next to the St. Catherine hospital in the slum of Cite Soleil. Cholera is spread by contaminated water and food. (Emilio Morenatti / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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    Members of a Haitian Ministry of Health team unload some of the 14 bodies collected in Titanyen, the site of a mass grave for earthquake victims, on Nov.17 in Port-au-Prince. The bodies were collected from homes, streets and a hospital and ended up at the Titanyen site. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
  23. People hold their noses from the stench of dead bodies as members of a Haitian Ministry of Health body-collection team takes away a victim of the cholera epidemic in Port-au-Prince. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
  24. A woman suffering from cholera symptoms lies on a stretcher at Santa Catherine hospital, Cite Soleil district, Port-au-Prince, on Nov. 16. (Andres Martinez Casares / EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
  25. Informational pamphlets about cholera are passed out by a member of a Haitian Ministry of Health body-collection team on Nov. 16 in Port-au-Prince. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
  26. A child is examined at the Doctors Without Borders temporary hospital in Port-au-Prince on Nov. 16. Symptoms of cholera include severe diarrhea, vomiting and fever. (Emilio Morenatti / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
  27. Haitians have held anti-U.N. protests, accusing Nepalese peacekeepers of bringing cholera to Haiti. In the northern city of Cap-Haitien, hundreds of protesters gathered on Nov. 15, hurling stones at U.N. peacekeepers, setting up burning barricades and torching a police station. The riots have disrupted efforts to combat the growing health epidemic. (Remi Ochlik / Polaris) Back to slideshow navigation
  28. A relative of Monitha Silney, 12, who died of cholera, mourns during her burial at the cemetery in the slum of Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince on Nov. 14. (Emilio Morenatti / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
  29. A girl suffering cholera symptoms receives treatment at the Doctors Without Borders temporary hospital in Port-au-Prince, Nov. 12. (Emilio Morenatti / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
  30. Residents argue at a water collection site at the Cite Soleil slum in Port-au-Prince, Nov. 11. (Ramon Espinosa / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
  31. A man suffering from cholera recovers at the Sathe hospital in Cite Soleil, on Nov. 11. If caught early, cholera is easily treated; but if not, it can kill in just hours. (Andres Martínez Casares / EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
  32. A medic ties the legs of 2-year-old Clercilia Regis who, according to doctors, died of cholera a few minutes earlier at the St. Catherine hospital in Cite Soleil, on Nov. 10. (Ramon Espinosa / AP) Back to slideshow navigation

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    >>> and now the latest on the grim awful spread of cholera in haiti . the remedy is simple, if detected early and victims are treated quickly. but that's not what's happening in haiti . now they're hearing there's evidence the disease has spread to the dominican republic and people there are getting angry. our report from our own kerry sanders in port-au-prince.

    >> reporter: health teams patrol haiti 's capital in search of cholera victims and they're finding them, sometimes dead in the streets. violent protests this week focused on the united nations . cholera is a warter born disease. the u.s. centers for disease control say it came from half a world away . southeast asia . u.n. troops from nepal, here to help after the earthquake, used this latrine, now considered the likely source of the epidemic.

    >> hopefully we'll know one day, but it's not our job to point out. because it makes no difference to us.

    >> reporter: in the small village, the faces of those hit by the bacterial disease are haunting. a 9-year-old labors to breathe. he and his brother just clinging to life. is he going to survive because he got here in time?

    >> well, he came with his family of six.

    >> reporter: the remedy is a mixture of salt and sugar water , antibiotics for the more extreme cases. world health officials say in the coming month the disease will hit an estimated 200,000 haitians. kerry sanders , "nightly news," port-au-prince, haiti .

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