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Published October 21, 2010, 12:00 AM

Haiti disease outbreak


People receive serum at the parking lot of the St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, today. Health officials said an outbreak of severe diarrhea has killed at least 54 people and sickened hundreds more while patients have been lying on blankets outside the crowded hospital and doctors are testing for cholera, typhoid and other illnesses that could have caused the outbreak.(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Read the article: At least 135 dead from cholera outbreak in Haiti