Ministry of health Haitian officials informed the World Health Organization 138 deaths are part of an outbreak of cholera fast North of Port - au-Prince, said an official of the United Nations.
Imogen Wall, humanitarian spokesperson in Haiti, said that in addition to the death, 1.526 cases are also part of the epidemic.All cases were reported in the region of lower Artibonite, North of Port - au Prince, she says.
"It's a situation that is very developed rapidement.Il is 48 hours and we already have 138 deaths has confirmed, Wall told CNN."
"I can also tell you that we've just had confirmation from the Ministry of health here is cholera, which is partially a severe cholera is a very dangerous disease development and it spreads very rapidly, but also because it is unusual in Haiti," she says. ""It was not an outbreak here during the decades".
Mr. Michel Thieren PAHO described health outbreak as a "serious" and noted that officials were still trying track how far it was propagated.
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