Cholera made its appearance in Haiti in October 2010. One year after the beginning of the epidemic, the total toll of cases amounted to about 490 000, with more than 6200 deaths. At that time, those figures already made the Haiti epidemic the largest cholera outbreak in recent history. The epidemic did not stop after just 1 year, though, as testified by the still increasing counts of cases and casualties (respectively -689 000 and -8400; data from the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population, retrieved on 13 November 2013).
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