PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Diarrheal illnesses, acute respiratory infections and malnutrition are beginning to claim the lives of dozens of Haiti's earthquake victims.
Health officials fearful of contagious disease outbreak are rushing to vaccinate more than half a million children against measles, diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough.
Some 300,000 people are injured. And the number of amputees, estimated in the thousands, keeps rising because of untreated fractures.
Food shortage violence is also producing casualties. One doctor says he treats several gunshot wounds a day.
The U.N. is working to compile data on the number of deaths not directly caused by the Jan. 12 quake.
Haiti's government has raised the death toll for the earthquake to 230,000.
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AP Correspondent Frank Bajak reports on a tragic death from diarrhea, an easily treated disease, in Haiti.
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AP Correspondent Frank Bajak reports emergency health care workers fear that an outbreak of disease, coupled with malnutrition, could race through the refugee camps.
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AP Correspondent Frank Bajak reports that sanitation is a problem in the camps.
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AP Correspondent Frank Bajak reports that there is a real worry that many Haitians will get sick in the days and weeks ahead.
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: A rag doll hangs from the remains of a destroyed house in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. A powerful earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12.
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: A child watches a fire in a book store in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. A powerful earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12.
