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  • Sewage runs, garbage piles up at Haiti quake camps

    01/21/2010 11:07:57 AM PST · by SkyPilot · 62 replies · 1,217+ views
    Reuters ^ | 21 Jan 10 | Catherine Bremer
    * Sanitary conditions deteriorate as survivors camp out * Thousands eat, sleep, wash and defecate in open camps * Health risks mount, emergency latrines needed PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 21 (Reuters) - A child squats to defecate yards away from a sidewalk where women press plantain into bite-sized pieces for frying and a naked toddler plays with a pile of rice on the filthy ground. Nearby, a dead body has been dumped on the street, right in front of a sea of morose people sitting on grubby mattresses, and a garbage collector uses a shovel to scoop up soggy black mounds of...