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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Cholera first appeared in Haiti 12 years ago this month when an outbreak was confirmed on Oct. 20, 2010 – 10 months after the country’s devastating earthquake that left over 300,000 dead.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...