Another 1000 people have sought treatment for cholera in Haitian hospitals bring the number sickened in past weeks to 9000 with 583 deaths, a health official said.
Calling the cholera outbreak a matter of "national security," Gabriel Thimote, director of the health ministry, said the toll had jumped from the 544 deaths and 8,000 hospitalised the day before.
Health Ministry chief of staff Ariel Henry said a few "isolated cases" of cholera had appeared in the capital of Port-au-Prince, raising officials worst fears of an outbreak in the ravaged city's sprawling refugee camps.
There is no epidemic in the city yet, but "it's coming," he warning.
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