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As cholera worsens, violence breaks out in Haiti

GlobalPost by Ezra Fieser | Nov. 16, 2010 (News Report)
Protesters set fire to a police station and clash with UN forces as the cholera death toll grows.

Anger over the cholera outbreak led to violent demonstrations today as protesters set fire to a police station and clashed with U.N. forces in Cap-Haitien, a city on the north coast. One protester was killed. Many Haitians blame a Nepalese U.N. contingent for causing the outbreak when sewage from their camp leaked into the Artibonite. Full Story »

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Eric Allen
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 by Eric Allen - Nov. 17, 2010

I think the story needs more context, like information about cholera outbreaks around the world, and previous outbreaks in Haiti. Also, I think the information about cholera should be higher up in the story, and there should be more statistics about cholera. It also would have been nice to hear about other possible sources of the cholera outbreak, instead of the one rumor about the outbreak coming from the sewage leak.

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