PHOTOS: New threat looms in Haiti
A man carries mattresses up a hill at the Petionville Club tent camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as some residents are being moved to a safer camp. Petionville Club is one of the largest camps for the displaced in the capital, and engineers have identified 7,500 people to be moved immediately because of the threat of flooding.
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A woman, covered in mosquito bites, rests in the shade at a tent camp near Port-au-Prince’s Cite Soleil neighborhood. Officials are concerned about a possible malaria outbreak as the rainy season approaches.
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Hundreds of people, many of whom have waited for hours, crowd in to secure a place in line in Port-au-Prince where the international humanitarian organization Goal distributes food. Many Haitians still rely on aid three months after the earthquake.
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Haitians seek aid at the Goal distribution center.
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Shoppers crowd a street market among the ruins in Port-au-Prince.
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Peter Ones, left, and Laflpaer Harris, repair furniture at a shop. The shop and its business have been devastated by the earthquake.
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Jackson Pierre, 35, front, who is recovering from
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Claire Basiler, 80, at home with her grandchildren, Chelsea Pular, left, and Marie Claire Sentyber. She hasn’t been able to leave her block because she is too feeble to climb over 20 feet of rubble.
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The U.N. hopes to relocate displaced Haitians living in a canyon called La Vallee de Bourdon. The International Organization of Migration says 8,000 people live in this valley, 2,500 of them in danger because of the rainy season.
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La Vallee de Bourdon.
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Louis Marie Carmeal, in yellow shirt, Roselar Solon, in salmon-colored tank top, and others wait in line at a hospital at the Petionville camp.
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