HAVANA: Cuba's second cholera outbreak in four months - after 130 years without the disease - has sickened more than 50 people and killed one in Havana, authorities and the family of the deceased said Tuesday.
The latest outbreak was from the same cholera strain found to have been introduced in Haiti by Nepalese UN peacekeepers, unleashing an epidemic in 2010 that has killed some 7,900 people.
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