Haitians are treated onboard the USS Bataan
A Haitian girl who broke her leg is transported to the USNS Comfort, onboard the USS Bataan, off the coast of Haiti, January 23, 2010. The U.S. Navy is participating in Operation United Response and is delivering aid and assistance to Haiti. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
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Cholera has killed at least 7,000 people and sickened more than 520,000 in Haiti two years after a devastating earthquake struck the country, officials said.
Swedish and U.S. researchers say cellphones can track population movements in the wake of disasters to help deliver humanitarian aid to the right places.
The scope of the devastation from the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti was not as severe as once estimated, a draft of a U.S. government report indicates.
A star soccer player from Florida's Lynn University was killed this weekend when he and a teammate fell from a Fort Lauderdale bridge, college officials said.
Scientists studying the January 2010 Haiti earthquake say the tsunami risk is greater than they thought for cities like Los Angeles or Kingston, Jamaica.
Volunteer doctors and donated supplies poured in from abroad after the January Haiti earthquake, but local doctors and private hospitals say they are closing.
Hollywood icon Cher has donated one of her gowns to be auctioned off on eBay to raise money for the Voila Foundation's educational initiatives in Haiti.
The rule book on unintended and unanticipated global disasters is yet to be written. In the past decade, the world has experienced several surprise disasters that dwarfed 9/11, in either casualties and/or cost -- e.g., the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that triggered a gigantic tsunami that killed more than 200,000 in 11 countries; the 2007 criminally inspired Wall Street subprime mortgage meltdown that triggered a worldwide financial and economic crisis, and left tens of millions jobless; the Haiti earthquake that took 230,000 lives.
A group of eight Michigan farmers said they collected 576,000 eggs to donate to a charity sending food to survivors of the Haiti earthquake.
Many left orphaned by the Haiti earthquake are stranded with no adoptions pending as caregivers say they're struggling to bring them to the United States.
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