Haitian cholera epidemic spreading fast

UN officials announced this week that cholera is now projected to spread across Haiti more than twice as fast as originally estimated, with more than 425,000 cases expected in the first six months since it appeared. The disease had officially infected 66,593 people and killed 1,523 as of Monday, according to the country’s Ministry of Health.

Jacqueline Charles, Haiti correspondent for The Miami Herald, reports that official body collectors sent by the government are being attacked while they scour the streets to pick up the dead.