Haiti cholera death toll tops 2,000

Haitian officials say more than 2,000 people have died of cholera since late October andmore than 91,700 people have been sickened by the disease.

Cholera had never been seen before in Haiti before the outbreak began along the rural Artibonite River. Due to dire sanitation and systemic health-care shortages, it has now spread to every region of the country.

Aid workers have tried to bring the outbreak under control but the disease continues to rage, especially in rural areas.The United Nations said last week that the death and infection tolls could be twice as high as officially reported.

Haiti is also recovering from a devastating earthquake that occurred on Jan. 12,killing as many as 300,000 people.