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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Relief officials are scrambling to confront a sanitation crisis that could spread malaria, cholera and other deadly diseases throughout the chaotic camps packed with hundreds of thousands of Haitian earthquake survivors.
The U.N. has started to dig latrines for 20,000 people, said Silvia Gaya, UNICEF’s coordinator for water and sanitation, even if that is a small fraction of the 700,000 people that officials said were living in the camps last week.
