au-Prince, Dhu-AlQa'dah 17, 1432, Oct 15, 2011, SPA - One year after cholera broke out in Haiti, the number of deaths has risen significantly, Haiti's Health Ministry reported Friday. According to the report, 6,510 people died of cholera in the first nine months of 2011. The death rate has now increased by five a day, or roughly 20 per cent. Infections are also up, with nearly 700 new cases daily. All told, the disease has sickened more than 460,000 people so far, in the year since its outbreak in Haiti's western Artibonite department in October 2010, the report was quoted as saying by the German Press Agency "DPA".
