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Haiti’s tent cities to bear worst of potential hurricane Tomas

Some 1.3 million Haitians in the capital’s tent cities have nowhere to go as potential hurricane Tomas approaches, even as 120,000 homes sit vacant and…

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Haiti: Hurricane Tomas Preparations• Cholera Situation Report #13, 3 November 2010

full_report PDF file HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES Emergency supplies and equipment are urgently needed in preparation for Tropical Storm Tomas. WASH, shelter, logistics and communication clusters have…

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Experts: Did UN troops infect Haiti?

By JONATHAN M. KATZ The Associated Press Wednesday, November 3, 2010; 5:40 PM PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Researchers should determine whether United Nations peacekeepers were the…

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Haiti wants major camp evacuated ahead of storm

Johnathan Katz: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — It was the jewel of Haiti’s post-earthquake recovery: an organized relocation camp with thousands of tents billed as hurricane-resistant, lined up…

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USS Iwo Jima en route to Haiti

U.S. Southern Command directed USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) to steam toward Haiti today in preparation for the forecasted arrival of tropical storm Tomas, which…

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Haiti beats Guatemala in WWCQ Matches

CONCACAF.com Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football November 1, 2010 CANCUN, Mexico – Adeline Saintilmond scored her first goal of the tournament…

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Insult to injury: Cholera has Haiti reeling, and Bill Clinton & Anderson Cooper haven’t done enough

By Ansel Herz Breaking: North American news outlets “excited” by Haiti cholera outbreak. They say for them, “without a crisis, Haiti doesn’t exist.” It’s a…

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Tomas seen regaining power , pose threat to Haiti

By GLENFORD PRESCOTT, Associated Press Mon Nov 1, 6:15 am ET KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – No longer a hurricane, Tropical Storm Tomas swirled over warm…

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Laboratory Test Results of Cholera Outbreak Strain in Haiti Announced

Press Release __________________________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release      Contact: Division of News & Electronic Media Monday, November 1, 2010      (404) 639-3286 Laboratory Test…

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Haiti braces as Hurricane Tomas roars over Caribbean

Sun Oct 31, 2010 5:35pm EDT image By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Authorities on Sunday urged hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in…

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Plantes pouvant aider à la lutte contre le choléra

Par Marilise Rouzier, Biologiste Haiti est frappée par une épidémie de choléra, maladie très contagieuse touchant une population déjà fragilisée et due à une bactérie…

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How series was reported and numbers tallied

In February reporters and photographers from El Nuevo Herald and The Miami Herald began investigating claims that children were routinely smuggled from Haiti into the…

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Hurricane Tomas might put Haiti under the gun

The forecast track for Tomas now shows the system slowing down considerably by Thursday and starting to turn northwest while it’s in the Caribbean southeast…

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Misinformation the enemy in Haiti’s cholera battle-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

Angela Mulholland, CTV.ca News Date: Saturday Oct. 30, 2010 7:49 AM ET As Haiti enters its third week of an outbreak of cholera, health workers…

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Protesters blame UN base for cholera in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of protesters who blame U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal for Haiti’s widening cholera epidemic marched on a rural military base Friday…

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Haiti Scrambles to Secure Clean Water Cholera Epidemic Underscores Need to Overhaul Crumbling Sanitation Network; Helicopters Ferry in Supplies of Chlorine

Wall Street Journal: By INGRID ARNESEN And MIKE ESTERL A BIG PUDDLE OF NEPALESE POO CONTAMINATES PEASANT’S WATER SUPPLY U.N. investigators seeking the cause of…

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Rapid test for malaria approved for Haiti

ATLANTA, Oct. 28 (UPI) — Haitian and U.S. officials have approved the use of three malaria rapid diagnostic tests for use in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, a…

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Haiti’s Latest Misery

The cholera outbreak in Haiti — the first in 50 years — has layered fresh anxiety atop long-standing misery. By Tuesday the disease had sickened…

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Haiti civil service in ruins

More Images » Country director for international aid organization Oxfam and former Agriculture Minister for Haiti, Philippe Mathieu is still living in a tent outside…

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Haiti Struggles to Contain Cholera

By INGRID ARNESEN And MIKE ESTERL ST. MARC, Haiti—A deadly cholera epidemic in Haiti showed no signs of stabilizing Wednesday, even as the government and…