BBC News with Jerry Smit

The number of people who've died in a cholera epidemic in Haiti has risen to more than 250. Health experts believe that 3,000 people have been infected. Laura Trevelyan reports from the town of Saint-Marc, the centre of the cholera outbreak.

The Haitian authorities say that fewer deaths and new cases were reported over the past 24 hours, which suggests the outbreak could be stabilising. However, at St Nicholas hospital in Saint-Marc, the centre of the outbreak, doctors said they were seeing about the same number of new cases today as they did yesterday. Fears remain that the disease could still spread to the crowded camps on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, where those made homeless by January's earthquake are still living.