A cholera outbreak that already has left 250 people dead and more than 3,000 sickened is at the doorstep of an enormous potential breeding ground: the squalid camps in Port-au-Prince where 1.3 million Haiti earthquake survivors live.

THE search for survivors of Haiti’s killer earthquake started to wind down and Haiti’s government said yesterday it would move some 400,000 homeless to new villages to be built outside the wrecked capital.