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Aid workers in Haiti say the government has done little to improve water and sanitation since a Jan. 12 quake, making a cholera epidemic wor ...

The United Nations is appealing for nearly $164 million for cholera relief in Haiti over the next six months. Aid agencies say the epidemic is worsening and they anticipate up to 200,000 people will show symptoms of cholera in the coming six months.

Hundreds have succumbed to the disease in a nation all too familiar with death and ill-equipped to deal with disaster. A mother cradled her limp 2-year-old boy, gently bouncing him on her knee as though she would lose him if she stopped.

Haiti's government and its aid partners fought on Friday to contain a cholera epidemic that has killed at least 138 people in the nation's worst medical emergency since the January 12 earthquake.