Red Cross reopens Haiti cholera centre-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

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THE Red Cross has reopened a cholera treatment centre near Port-au-Prince to fight a resurgence of a disease that killed thousands last year, a statement said today.

According to Haitian health authorities, at least 10 people died in recent days of a new cholera spike in areas near the Haitian capital.

About 1000 cholera cases were admitted to the Carrefour hospital, south of the capital, they said.

The Red Cross “centre was originally established last year at the height of the epidemic and we have further stocks of medical equipment … ready to be released”, said Gerhard Tauscher, cholera operation coordinator for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in a statement.

Reports of cholera in Haiti’s urban areas had been trailing off since the beginning of the year, even if isolated cases were reported in rural areas.

In the late 2010 epidemic, 5332 people were killed and 310,000 were diagnosed with cholera. At the height of the outbreak dozens of deaths were reported daily.

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COMMENT: HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG

The UN wishes that their MINUSTAH initiated cholera epidemic would just go away but this will not happen.

The rainy season that now persists will  spread the disease once more. Already substantial numbers are being seen in the Port-au=Prince area which means that huge numbers are being infected in places the outside world does not see.

Predictions indicate that at least 1,000,000 will be infected before the end of 2011. MINUSTAH keeps under reporting the death toll but a Google Search will show you what  the medical community projects at various levels of treatment. With the Haitian levels we could lose over 20-50,000 people.

Someone should file a lawsuit against MINUSTAH and the UN for its gross negligence in bringing cholera to Haiti.

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