Chaos In Haiti As Cholera Patients Seek Treatment
{"Image ImageDescription": "Sick victims and families wait at St. Nicolas Hospital in St. Marc, north of Port-au-Prince on October 24, 2010. Haiti's cholera crisis deepened Sunday as the first cases in the capital raised fears the epidemic could infiltrate Port-au-Prince's squalid tent cities and spawn a major health disaster. More than 250 people have died and thousands have been infected, but those numbers could soar if cholera reached the camps where hundreds of thousands live in awful conditions after being displaced by January's earthquake. Cholera is primarily passed on through contaminated water or food and could spread like wildfire through the unsanitary tent cities, where displaced families bathe outside, do laundry and share meals in close quarters.The latest toll of 253 dead and 3,015 infections from top Haitian health official Gabriel Thimote, represented an increase of only 33 fatalities in the last 24 hours -- an indication perhaps that the epidemic could be contained. AFP PHOTO / Thony BELIZAIRE (Photo credit should read THONY BELIZAIRE/AFP/Getty Images)", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2010:10:27 15:33:05", "Image Artist": "THONY BELIZAIRE", "Image Copyright": "2010 AFP", "Image ExifOffset": "1292", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "1430", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "8304", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "3145", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2532"}