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Some two in five of Haiti’s growing number of cholera cases are among children, the United Nation’s children’s agency warned on Wednesday, saying youth suffering from severe malnutrition ran three times the risk of dying from the bacterial disease.

Children play with a broken doll at the Hugo Chavez Square where they shelter from gang war violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti October 16, 2022.Children play with a broken doll at the Hugo Chavez Square where they shelter from gang war violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti October 16, 2022.

Cholera remerged in the Caribbean island nation early October after around three years without reported cases, amid shortages of food and clean drinking water triggered by a gang blockade of its main fuel port. Fontaine pointed to a “triple threat” of malnutrition, cholera and armed violence, the first two a “lethal combination, one leading to the other.”

 

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