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C. More than a million people are crowded into tent cities around Port-au-Prince with poor sanitary conditions and little access to clean drinking water. Those in the camps are highly vulnerable to the intestinal infection, which is caused by bacteria transmitted through contaminated water or food.
D. Port-au-Prince was hit by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake in January. Up to 300,000 people were killed and much of the capital and its wider area were devastated. The nation also has suffered years of political violence and lies in the middle of the hurricane belt.
D. The population has cut down an estimated 98 percent of Hait's original forest cover for use as fuel for cookstoves, and in the process has destroyed fertile farmland soils. This has contributed to both deadly flooding and desertification.
B. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with 80 percent of the population living under the poverty line and 54 percent in abject poverty.