DEATH TOLL QUESTIONS

*THE TERRY REPORT*

	The Haitian government’s estimates of the dead, as well as other numbers related to the earthquake, have been in doubt from the very start. Now, news organizations and others are finally getting around to asking questions, something that was done here on the TerryReport from the first day after the quake. Here is part of a report put out by the Associated Press, with a link to the full story:

		Haiti's government says 230,000 people died in the Jan. 12 earthquake â€” as many as the 2004 Asian tsunami killed in a dozen nations, but it remains unclear who's doing the counting. Images View More Images The Joint Task Force in charge of the global response to the quake â€” foreign governments and militaries, U.N. agencies and Haitian government officials â€” quotes only the death toll issued by Haiti's government. And that government, whose infrastructure was devastated by the quake, hasn't been able to explain its methodology. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/10/international/i120429S13.DTL&type=health#ixzz0fAOK1y1E

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