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Not quite 10 months after Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake, a more insidious disaster struck: cholera. Haiti hadn't seen cholera for at least a century.
Cholera plagues poor countries with bad sanitation. But that fits Haiti before and after last January's devastating earthquake. So why did the disease only pop up now? "That's a million-dollar ...
Haiti’s health ministry, on guard for an outbreak after the devastating Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake left more than 300,000 dead and 1.5 million homeless nine months earlier, suspected it could be ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A cholera outbreak that already has left 250 people dead and more than 3,000 sickened is at the doorstep of an enormous potential breeding ground: the squalid camps in ...
Ten months after Haiti struggled to recover from a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake, the nation suffered a public health epidemic. Cholera appeared for the first time in 100 years, making ...
In 2010, less than a year after a massive earthquake, cholera began to spread from a camp of UN peacekeepers into the population. That outbreak ultimately reached 800,000 cases and claimed at ...
Haiti recorded its first cholera case in October 2010, several months after a powerful earthquake rocked the country, killing more than 300,000 people. Advertisement.
The death toll is mounting in a growing cholera outbreak in Haiti, all while the beleaguered Caribbean country grapples with gang violence, crumbling infrastructure, and widespread social and ...
Dozens more cases of cholera have been diagnosed in Haiti, ... In 2010, less than a year after a massive earthquake, cholera began to spread from a camp of UN peacekeepers into the population.