UN: Cholera may fester in Haiti for years

UNITED Nations officials warn that cholera, which is easily treatable but can kill at alarming speed, has a foothold in Haiti, and could fester in the country for years.

The disease that emerged last week in the first cases here for a century has killed 259 people.

Fear of the disease shot through the squalid tent camps where hundreds of thousands of refugees have been living since after the powerful January earthquake that devastated the Haitian capital.