Hurricane Matthew
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Haiti Sees 800 New Cholera Cases After Hurricane
Haiti recorded nearly 800 cases of cholera the week after it was ravaged by Hurricane Matthew, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday, as health officials grapple to contain the disease.
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Number Of Deaths From Hurricane Matthew Climbs To 26 In North Carolina
The number of people dead from Hurricane Matthew has risen to 26 in North Carolina, with two more bodies recovered as some flood waters recede, Governor Pat McCrory said on Saturday.
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Powerful Hurricane Nicole Wreaks Havoc On Bermuda
Hurricane Nicole plowed directly into Bermuda on Thursday, causing widespread damage and knocking out power to most homes and businesses while apparently sparing the tiny Atlantic island chain any severe injuries or fatalities, government officials said.
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Police Couldn't Help His Grandmother During The Hurricane, So He Called The Pizza Guy Instead.
Eric Olsen watched with anxiety from Nebraska as Hurricane Matthew - declared the most dangerous storm to ever approach central Florida - loomed along the eastern United States last week.
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Haiti Tries To Get Hurricane Aid Right, But Cholera Blamed On UN Weighs
Foreign medics with orange stretchers and gallons of chlorine are stemming a cholera outbreak on Haiti's hurricane-struck coast but the focus on a disease UN peacekeepers brought here six years ago is slowing the delivery of food and shelter for storm victims.
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Haiti Needs 'Massive Response' After Hurricane: UN Chief
A "massive response" is needed to help Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew and the United Nations is mobilizing on all fronts to help get the recovery under way, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.
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Drownings Push Hurricane Number Of Deaths Rise To 19 In Flooded North Carolina
Officials in North Carolina said they would go door to door on Wednesday urging people to leave low-lying areas as rivers swollen by rainfall from Hurricane Matthew continue to rise, threatening homes and resulting in more drownings.
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WHO Sending 1 Million Cholera Vaccine Doses To Haiti
The powerful hurricane slammed into Haiti last week, killing at least 1,000 people according to a tally of numbers from local officials.
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North Carolina Braces For More Flooding In Downstream Towns
A state trooper shot and killed an armed man during a search for flood victims in a tense and dispirited North Carolina, and thousands more people were ordered to evacuate as high water from Hurricane Matthew pushed downstream on Tuesday, two days after the storm blew out to sea.
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US Policy On Deporting Haitians On Hold In Wake Of Hurricane
The US Homeland Security secretary says Hurricane Matthew's devastation in Haiti has put on hold a new policy of deporting Haitians in the United States without permission, but the government intends to resume it in the future.
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Haiti Death Toll Hits 473 As Survivors Plead For Aid
At least 473 people are now known to have died as Hurricane Matthew leveled swaths of southern Haiti last week, officials said Tuesday, as hard-hit communities struggled to rebuild homes and access food and clean water.
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Hundreds Stranded In North Carolina Floods After Hurricane Matthew
Hundreds of people were rescued by boat and helicopter as floodwaters inundated North Carolina towns on Monday in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, and officials warned that life-threatening flooding from swollen rivers would continue for days.
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Hurricane Matthew Toll In Haiti Rises To 1,000, Dead Buried In Mass Graves
Haiti started burying some of its dead in mass graves in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a government official said on Sunday, as cholera spread in the devastated southwest and the death toll from the storm rose to 1,000 people.
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Hurricane Matthew Devastates Florida Sands Key To Protection, Tourism
When Christa Savva returned to the Sandy Shoes Beach Resort a day after Hurricane Matthew brushed by Melbourne Beach, Florida, she looked at the beach in front of the pink-flamingo-colored hotel and noticed half the sand dunes had disappeared.
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'Like A Nuclear Bomb,' Cholera And Destruction After Hurricane In Haiti
Patients arrived every 10 or 15 minutes, brought on motorcycles by relatives with vomit-covered shoulders and hoisted up the stairs into southwest Haiti's Port-a-Piment hospital, where they could rest their weak, cholera-sapped limbs.
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Haiti Sees 800 New Cholera Cases After Hurricane
Haiti recorded nearly 800 cases of cholera the week after it was ravaged by Hurricane Matthew, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday, as health officials grapple to contain the disease.
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Number Of Deaths From Hurricane Matthew Climbs To 26 In North Carolina
The number of people dead from Hurricane Matthew has risen to 26 in North Carolina, with two more bodies recovered as some flood waters recede, Governor Pat McCrory said on Saturday.
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Powerful Hurricane Nicole Wreaks Havoc On Bermuda
Hurricane Nicole plowed directly into Bermuda on Thursday, causing widespread damage and knocking out power to most homes and businesses while apparently sparing the tiny Atlantic island chain any severe injuries or fatalities, government officials said.
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Police Couldn't Help His Grandmother During The Hurricane, So He Called The Pizza Guy Instead.
Eric Olsen watched with anxiety from Nebraska as Hurricane Matthew - declared the most dangerous storm to ever approach central Florida - loomed along the eastern United States last week.
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Haiti Tries To Get Hurricane Aid Right, But Cholera Blamed On UN Weighs
Foreign medics with orange stretchers and gallons of chlorine are stemming a cholera outbreak on Haiti's hurricane-struck coast but the focus on a disease UN peacekeepers brought here six years ago is slowing the delivery of food and shelter for storm victims.
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Haiti Needs 'Massive Response' After Hurricane: UN Chief
A "massive response" is needed to help Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew and the United Nations is mobilizing on all fronts to help get the recovery under way, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.
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Drownings Push Hurricane Number Of Deaths Rise To 19 In Flooded North Carolina
Officials in North Carolina said they would go door to door on Wednesday urging people to leave low-lying areas as rivers swollen by rainfall from Hurricane Matthew continue to rise, threatening homes and resulting in more drownings.
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WHO Sending 1 Million Cholera Vaccine Doses To Haiti
The powerful hurricane slammed into Haiti last week, killing at least 1,000 people according to a tally of numbers from local officials.
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North Carolina Braces For More Flooding In Downstream Towns
A state trooper shot and killed an armed man during a search for flood victims in a tense and dispirited North Carolina, and thousands more people were ordered to evacuate as high water from Hurricane Matthew pushed downstream on Tuesday, two days after the storm blew out to sea.
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US Policy On Deporting Haitians On Hold In Wake Of Hurricane
The US Homeland Security secretary says Hurricane Matthew's devastation in Haiti has put on hold a new policy of deporting Haitians in the United States without permission, but the government intends to resume it in the future.
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Haiti Death Toll Hits 473 As Survivors Plead For Aid
At least 473 people are now known to have died as Hurricane Matthew leveled swaths of southern Haiti last week, officials said Tuesday, as hard-hit communities struggled to rebuild homes and access food and clean water.
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Hundreds Stranded In North Carolina Floods After Hurricane Matthew
Hundreds of people were rescued by boat and helicopter as floodwaters inundated North Carolina towns on Monday in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, and officials warned that life-threatening flooding from swollen rivers would continue for days.
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Hurricane Matthew Toll In Haiti Rises To 1,000, Dead Buried In Mass Graves
Haiti started burying some of its dead in mass graves in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a government official said on Sunday, as cholera spread in the devastated southwest and the death toll from the storm rose to 1,000 people.
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Hurricane Matthew Devastates Florida Sands Key To Protection, Tourism
When Christa Savva returned to the Sandy Shoes Beach Resort a day after Hurricane Matthew brushed by Melbourne Beach, Florida, she looked at the beach in front of the pink-flamingo-colored hotel and noticed half the sand dunes had disappeared.
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'Like A Nuclear Bomb,' Cholera And Destruction After Hurricane In Haiti
Patients arrived every 10 or 15 minutes, brought on motorcycles by relatives with vomit-covered shoulders and hoisted up the stairs into southwest Haiti's Port-a-Piment hospital, where they could rest their weak, cholera-sapped limbs.
