Disaster specialists say the slow pace of clearing the rubble – and decomposing bodies beneath the debris – from last month’s earthquake in Haiti has left residents vulnerable to the spread of diseases such as typhoid and cholera.
With the rainy season fast approaching, one expert even warns that there will be more dead people in the next four to six weeks than during the earthquake itself.
Al Jazeera’s Steve Chao reports from Port-au-Prince
Source: AlJazeera
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