While emergency-response teams have already begun combing through the wreckage, searching for injured people who might still be saved and treating wounds to prevent infection, there are longer-term health risks that threaten the devastated island.
With basic health care and sanitation all but destroyed, and millions of survivors likely left homeless, unchecked infectious disease and contamination will pose a threat to survivors.
The report also says that Haiti already has been a public-health disaster. It is one of the poorest countries on earth, with only 1 in every 50 Haitians holding a steady job.
No Haitian city has a public sewage system, and less than half the population has any access to drinking-water services.
Malnutrition is rampant, nearly 200,000 people live with HIV or AIDS, and just half the childhood population is vaccinated against basic diseases like diphtheria.
The quake will make it all unimaginably worse.
The Haitian people need our prayers and financial help.
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