Malaria, Dengue Rage After Haitian Flooding And Landslides - Reuters

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MAPOU, Haiti — "Doctors are fighting to prevent multiple epidemics among survivors from the drowned Haitian town of Mapou, one of the worst-hit areas in floods that killed about 2,600 people three weeks ago. A small team of doctors from Cuba and from the Paris-based Doctors Without Borders are fighting outbreaks of mosquito-borne fevers like malaria and dengue in Mapou, which is still under water following the May 24 floods.

"Now the situation is under control. We are trying to prevent an epidemic. But it can explode any time," Cuban physician Miuber Castillo told reporters on Sunday. The floods, triggered by days of torrential rains, swamped entire villages in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, which share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.

More than 1,000 flood survivors have visited an improvised health clinic set up in Mapou, a valley village about 25 miles southeast of Port-au-Prince. Apart from malaria and dengue, doctors reported a high incidence of diarrhea, respiratory failure, and scabies.

Castillo and a Cuban colleague walked for more than six hours over mountains, across rivers and through bush and mud to reach Mapou, isolated when its only access road was washed away."

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