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Wide of Doctors Without Borders clinic 2. Mid of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) sign at the door 3. Wide of clinic waiting room 4. Close up of patient waiting to be treated 5. Close up of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eSt. Marc - 22 January 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of Doctors Without Borders clinic \u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) sign at the door \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of clinic waiting room \u003cbr/\u003e4. Close up of patient waiting to be treated \u003cbr/\u003e5. Close up of patient's hand on water cup \u003cbr/\u003e6. Rear shot of waiting room, with buckets used for sick patients\u003cbr/\u003ePort au Prince - 23 January 2011\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Stefano Zannini, chief of mission for Doctors Without Borders:\u003cbr/\u003e\"So people need to be aware about symptoms, for example, and about how to avoid to get sick. And this is something that fortunately we are seeing here in Haiti since some weeks ago. But, the problem is this sensitisation (means awareness), these promotions need to continue, because people need to be educated about that, because cholera will not disappear so quickly.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSt. Marc - 22 January 2011\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of cholera patients receiving treatment at Dctors Without Borders cholera clinic \u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up of baby receiving treatment for cholera \u003cbr/\u003e10. Close up of IV (intravenous) bags with serum \u003cbr/\u003e11. Nurse hanging patient's chart \u003cbr/\u003e12. Close up of elderly man receiving treatment for cholera \u003cbr/\u003e13. Nurse hanging IV bag \u003cbr/\u003e14. Interior of children's wing of cholera clinic \u003cbr/\u003e15. Close up of children being treated for cholera \u003cbr/\u003e16. Mother sitting by her child's bed \u003cbr/\u003e17. Close up of child receiving treatment for cholera\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE:(Spanish) Oscar Sanchez Rey, Doctor Without Borders' Field Coordinator:   \u003cbr/\u003e\"What we have seen over the last month is a great reduction in the number of patients and we have reached a stable point of about 40 patients a day.\"\u003cbr/\u003eArtibonite Valley\u003cbr/\u003e19. Various of rice farmers working in rice field \u003cbr/\u003e20. Close up of farmers hands cleaning fields before replanting crops \u003cbr/\u003e21. Farmer clearing rice field \u003cbr/\u003e22. Various of farmers clearing rice fields \u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE: (Creole) Fresnel Louis, president of worker's association: \u003cbr/\u003e\"If they don't work, what do they live on? There is no one to help them. I help them so I go in the water too, to show it is OK.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Various of rice farmers clearing field \u003cbr/\u003e25. Various of farmers walking off field\u003cbr/\u003eThe cholera epidemic that has raged across Haiti is claiming fewer victims, with a sharp drop in new cases everywhere from the shimmering rice fields of the Artibonite Valley to the crowded urban slums, authorities and foreign aid groups announced last Sunday.\u003cbr/\u003eIt is a welcome development, but tinged with doubt: It's not yet known whether the epidemic that has killed nearly 4,000 people is fading or merely taking a break, only to resurge again perhaps with the onset of the next rainy season.\u003cbr/\u003e\"People need to be aware about symptoms, for example, and about how to avoid to get sick and this is something that fortunately we are seeing here in Haiti since some weeks ago,\" Stefano Zannini, chief of mission for the aid group Doctors Without Borders, said on Sunday. \u003cbr/\u003eZannini, whose group is contemplating scaling back its more than 40 cholera treatment centres, was unable to muster even cautious optimism regarding the disease. \u003cbr/\u003eThe best he could say was that he was happy new cases and deaths are decreasing to levels not seen since soon after the disease emerged in October.\u003cbr/\u003eFor the moment, at least, the statistics are moving in the right direction. \u003cbr/\u003eThe number of new cases has dropped to about 4,700 per week, down from more than 12,000 per week in November, and the trend is downward in all 10 of Haiti's departments, or regions, according to the Health Ministry's latest bulletin, released on Thursday. \u003cbr/\u003eThe only places it appears to be still rising are in a few isolated spots in the northwest and south.\u003cbr/\u003eSome 40 patients a day are still coming to the Doctors Without Borders treatment centre in Saint Marc, where the disease first exploded, but that's a third of what it was in December and there hasn't been a death in six weeks, said field coordinator Oscar Sanchez Rey.\u003cbr/\u003e\"What we have seen over the last month is a great reduction in the number of patients and we have reached a stable point of about 40 patients a day,\" Sanchez said as he took a break from treating patients, including a family of six that all came down with the disease together. \u003cbr/\u003eHe cautioned that even though fewer people are getting sick, the centre's work is still critical.\u003cbr/\u003eCaused by a bacteria that spreads through contaminated water, the disease so far has sickened more than 194,000 people.\u003cbr/\u003eIt can lead to a rapid, painful death through complete dehydration, but is easily treatable if caught in time.\u003cbr/\u003eIn December, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned the outbreak could affect as many as 650,000 people over six months, but that seems less likely now. \u003cbr/\u003eThe UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned in December that cholera would also worsen hunger in the impoverished nation. \u003cbr/\u003eSurveys showed workers in the Artibonite, Haiti's main agriculture zone, were afraid to wade into rice fields and the public was shunning the region's produce, causing steep price drops in the local street markets. \u003cbr/\u003eFresnel Louis, the president of a worker's association in the area, said radio commentators were warning people not to go into the water at the start of the outbreak.\u003cbr/\u003e\"If they don't work, what do they live on? There is no one to help them,\" Louis said.\u003cbr/\u003eLouis added that there are few options to earn a living in the region.\u003cbr/\u003eDuring the past weekend, rice fields were filled with barefoot workers up to their ankles in muddy water believed to be contaminated with the cholera bacteria, planting the crop under a blistering sun. \u003cbr/\u003eMost earn about 2.50 US dollars (1.80 euros) for a six-hour workday.\u003cbr/\u003eThose rice fields could lead to a resurgence of the disease. \u003cbr/\u003eThere were no latrines in sight, nor any supplies of potable water - the same conditions that helped spread cholera so rapidly in the first place.\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile in neighbouring Dominican Republic, officials said a Haitian migrant had become the first person to die of cholera on Dominican soil.\u003cbr/\u003eA Monday statement from the Dominican Republic's health ministry says 53-year-old migrant Francois Renauld died on Friday at a hospital in Higuey, some 110 miles 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