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Aid agencies have been rushing medics and supplies of rehydration salts to the affected areas in a bid to stop the outbreak spreading to the Port-au-Prince area.Nike Dunk outlet "The priority is really for us and our main concern is to isolate patients that have already been affected by the disease and to inform the population on how to prevent against being contaminated," said Rosa Crestani, an emergency co-ordinator with the aid agency Medecins sans Frontieres. Later on Friday, the first two cholera cases outside the Artibonite were confirmed in Arcahaie, a town closer to Port-au-Prince, the Associated Press news agency reports. It says that experts were also investigating possible cases in Croix-des-Bouquet, a suburb of the capital. Kids Dunk Low Tens of thousands of survivors of the devastating earthquake are still living in crowded tent cities in and around Port-au-Prince with poor sanitation and little access to clean drinking water. This is the first time in a century that cholera has struck the Caribbean nation, the World Health Organization said. The Artibonite department was not badly damaged in the earthquake but thousands of people who lost their homes have moved into camps or are living with relatives there. Are you in the area? Have you been affected by the outbreak? You can send us your experiences using the form below: At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws. In most cases a selection of your comments will be published, displaying your name as you provide it and location unless you state otherwise. But your contact details will never be published.outlet dunk