http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40482791/ns/world_news-haiti_earthquake/
MSNBC
2 December 2010
Cholera panic sparks Haiti witch hunt; 12 killed
By JONATHAN M. KATZ
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Terror over a fast-spreading cholera epidemic has triggered a violent witch hunt in rural Haiti in which locals have murdered at least 12 neighbors on accusations they used "black magic" to infect people, police said Thursday. [...]
Rumors began to spread last week in the remote southwestern Grand Anse region, where the first cases of cholera are only now being seen, that Vodou practitioners had fashioned a magic powder to spread the infection. [...]
MSNBC
2 December 2010
Cholera panic sparks Haiti witch hunt; 12 killed
By JONATHAN M. KATZ
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Terror over a fast-spreading cholera epidemic has triggered a violent witch hunt in rural Haiti in which locals have murdered at least 12 neighbors on accusations they used "black magic" to infect people, police said Thursday. [...]
Rumors began to spread last week in the remote southwestern Grand Anse region, where the first cases of cholera are only now being seen, that Vodou practitioners had fashioned a magic powder to spread the infection. [...]
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