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That... Related News Some 200,000 at risk of cholera in Haiti, U.N. says 12:44pm EST Haiti cholera toll at 800, worry for U.S.: CDC expert Thu, Nov 11 2010 Cholera now in Haiti capital, rapid spread feared Tue, Nov 9 2010 Storm, cholera tolls rise, but Haiti vote still on Mon, Nov 8 2010 Haiti dodges storm disaster as cholera toll rises Sat, Nov 6 2010 Analysis & Opinion Helping Haiti: Stop the handouts Poor Haiti, again Related Topics World » United Nations » Natural Disasters » Related Video Cholera hits Haiti fishing trade 12:26am EST 1 / 4 A Haitian resident suffering from cholera is transported to receive treatment at St-Catherine hospital in the slum of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince November 12, 2010. Credit: Reuters/ St-Felix Evens By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA | Fri Nov 12, 2010 3:03pm EST GENEVA (Reuters) - Up to 200,000 Haitians could contract cholera as the outbreak which has already killed 800 is set to spread across the battered Caribbean nation of nearly 10 million, the United Nations said on Friday. That would be double the 100,000 cases during a huge cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between August 2008 and July 2009, which killed 4,287 people. The U.N. forecast of the number of cases in Haiti was based partly on the Zimbabwe toll. In a strategy plan drawn up with Haiti's government and aid agencies, the U.N. said Haiti needs $163.9 million (101.5 million pounds) in aid over the next year to combat the epidemic, the first cholera outbreak in the country in a century. Cholera could also spread to the neighboring Dominican Republic, it said. "The strategy anticipates a total of up to 200,000 people to show symptoms of cholera ranging from cases of mild diarrhea to the most severe dehydration," Elisabeth Byrs of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told a news briefing in Geneva on Friday. "Cases are expected to appear in a burst of epidemics that will happen suddenly in different parts of the country," she said. The death toll from the outbreak rose to 800 on Thursday and at least 11,125 patients have been hospitalized since the outbreak began more than three weeks ago. "The death rate isn't increasing but it is still much higher than usual, 6 to 7 percent. It should be much lower," World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Gregory Hartl told the same news briefing. CLASSIC RISK FACTORS Haiti's epidemic was aggravated by flooding caused by Hurricane Tomas this month and added to a humanitarian emergency in the wake of the massive earthquake in January which killed more than 250,000. The quake made some 1.5 million people homeless, and living conditions in the western hemisphere's poorest state leave people extremely vulnerable to the disease, which is spread by dirty water or food. The entire population is at risk because no one has immunity to cholera. The country has all the classic risk factors for the disease -- overcrowded camps for displaced quake survivors, a scarcity of safe drinking water, improper elimination of human waste and the contamination of food during or after its preparation. Cases have been confirmed in five of the 10 departments, including the capital Port-au-Prince, with "high probability of spread through all the country within the coming months," according to the U.N. strategy document. "Additionally, the population of the Dominican Republic with which Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola is at risk. 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