After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, many public health officials predicted a cholera outbreak would occur. Why did they make this prediction?

Cholera spreads when people consume water contaminated with the bacteria that cause the disease. After the earthquake, damaged water and sanitation systems and crowded living conditions made safe drinking water harder to obtain. Therefore, officials predicted an outbreak because people were drinking contaminated water; inhaling dust does not spread cholera.

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