Tim King Salem-News.com There are roughly 30,000 new cases of tuberculosis each year in Haiti. (PORT-AU-PRINCE / SALEM) – Haiti has the highest tuberculosis (TB) rate in the Americas, and health experts say that number may rise. Since last month’s earthquake, TB patients that have had their treatment disrupted could now become more infectious...
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By MICHELLE FAUL (AP) – 6 hours ago PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit Wednesday, the first ever by a French president, is reviving bitter memories of the crippling costs of Haiti’s 1804 independence. A third of the population was killed in an uprising against exceptionally brutal slavery, an international embargo was imposed to...
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