Today in History | Oct. 21, 2010: Haiti confirms its first cholera outbreak in more than a century
Medical personnel attend patients with cholera symptoms at a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. For the first time in three years, people in Haiti have been dying of cholera, raising concerns about a potentially fast-spreading scenario and reviving memories of an epidemic that killed nearly 10,000 people a decade ago. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

On Oct. 21, 2010, Haiti’s national laboratory confirmed cholera, marking the beginning of a devastating epidemic that exposed the country’s public health and sanitation challenges.

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