Santo Domingo. – The death of at least 135 Haitians from a reported outbreak of cholera has forced the various aid groups to mobilize emergency medicines and other materials to fight it, before it becomes that impoverished nation’s major post-quake health crisis and which prompted Dominican Republic’s Public Health Minister’s warning that it poses “all the danger in the world” for his country.

The outbreak in the rural region Artibonite, which houses thousands of the quake victims, materialized the fears of aid groups that the squalor would heighten the problems for people lodged in the makeshift tent cities cloaked in misery.

"We had feared this situation from the quake," said Robin Mahfood, head of the group Food for the Poor, which was readying a shipment of donated antibiotics, re-hydrator salts and other materials by air.

Many patients go to the hospital St. Nicholas in the coastal city St. Marc, where hundreds of dehydrated patients are fed intravenously while laying on blankets in the parking lot floor awaiting specialized medical attention.

Haiti’s Health Ministry has registered 135 deaths and more than 1,000 infected, said Catherine Huck, Assistant director in the country of the United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Coordination Office.

“We know that there are people with diarrhea and vomiting, who can pass away soon if the don’t receive timely medical attention. Doctors await lab results to confirm what disease they are dealing with.”