More than 2 months after the Haiti earthquake, relief efforts continue apace as a sense of normality creeps back onto broken streets, many of them now cleared of rubble, if not rubbish. Yet even as aid agencies settle in for the long haul and Haitians set about rebuilding what was lost, heavy rains over the next 3 months threaten to compound the crisis, putting the country's estimated 1.2 million displaced at increased risk of vector-borne and enteric diseases, including malaria, dengue fever, and acute watery diarrhoea.
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