
Members of a Haitian Ministry of Health body collection team place cotton balls around the face of Nixon Merise,24, as they prepare to remove his body from his home to their vehicle for disposal of it and other victims of the cholera epidemic on November 20, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. They placed cotton balls and gauze around his face to keep fluids from flowing out. Doctors say poor sanitary conditions after January's earthquake made the country vulnerable to cholera, which is caused by bacteria transmitted through contaminated water or food. By Joe Raedle/Getty Images.