Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Florida asks doctors to be vigilant for signs of cholera after outbreak in Haiti
By Stacey Singer Palm Beach Post November 4, 2010 Florida’s health department is asking doctors statewide to be prepared for possible cholera cases here as…
A GIFT FROM MINUSTAH Le Choléra frappe Port-au-Prince.
Les autorités sanitaires, ont déclaré lundi qu’ils examinaient au moins 120 cas suspects de choléra dans la capitale d’Haïti, Port-au-Prince. Au moins 114 cas soupçonnées…
FRIGHTENING CONFIRMATION OF CHOLERA IN CITE SOLEIR
We now have separate, independent confirmation of 5 cholera cases discovered at Wharf Jeremie, on the outskirts of Cite Soleil. Emergency assistance was request of…
Radio France Internationale L’épidémie de choléra atteint la capitale haïtienne
En Haïti, l’épidémie de choléra qui frappe le pays depuis la mi-octobre pourrait rapidement se propager, selon l’Organisation panaméricaine de la santé (OPS), une émanation…
Cholera epidemic leaves Haiti on brink of disaster once more
By Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles TimesNovember 10, 2010 Hundreds have succumbed to the disease in a nation all too familiar with death and ill-equipped to…
CHOLERA REACHES HAITIAN CAPITAL AS PREVAL GOVERNMENT TRIES TO CENSOR/BLOCK MEDIA COVERAGE OF THREAT. 9000 INFECTED AS EPIDEMIC ACCELERATES
Port-au-Prince on Tuesday reported its first suspected cases of cholera, although health officials here said there have been only “isolated” incidents of the illness which…
Haiti: Cholera is South Asian origin but Haitians have to be accountable-Believed that Preval and his MINUSTAH associates are using cholera – generated by MINUSTAH troops, as excuse to cancel elections. Is there more than meets the eye???
by Paul Sanon on Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 11:05am The last major cholera outbreak in the western hemisphere started in Peru in 1991 and…
Haiti: Cholera confirmed in Port-au-Prince
The health ministry in Port-au-Prince has confirmed that the country’s cholera epidemic has reached the Haitian capital. Doctors are treating 73 people for cholera, amid…
Weaker storm still brings Haiti misery-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Haiti avoided another major crisis but with destroyed homes, crops and roads, Hurricane Tomas still brought pain to the struggling nation. BY CURTIS MORGAN, TRENTON…
Haiti tests for cholera in Port-au-Prince
At least 120 people in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, are being tested for cholera, health officials say. Doctors have told the BBC the disease is “clinically”…
Haiti’s cholera epidemic death toll rises to 544
SANTO DOMINGO, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) — The death toll of the cholera epidemic in Haiti on Monday rose to 544 and some 8,000 people infected…
Haiti fears spread of cholera Health workers fear flooding caused by Hurricane Tomas could accelerate the spread of the disease.
Flooding in Haiti, caused by Hurricane Tomas, has heavily affected the cholera-infested region of Artibonite, where the first cases of the water-borne disease were diagnosed. The…
Haiti escapes catastrophe as Hurricane Tomas skirts island
Haiti is spared a direct hit at a time when more than a million people remain in tent camps after the Jan. 12 earthquake. But…
United Nations Brings Cholera to Haiti
WRITTEN BY BRUCE WALKER-The United Nations, touted by progressives for 60 years as the last best hope of mankind, has done almost no good anywhere…
Insult to injury: Cholera has Haiti reeling, and Bill Clinton & Anderson Cooper haven’t done enough
By Ansel Herz New York Daily News, November 1st 2010 Breaking: North American news outlets “excited” by Haiti cholera outbreak. They say for them, “without…
The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is Lying to You
By Ansel Herz Within hours of my op-ed being published in the New York Daily News today, the $50 million Clinton Bush Haiti Fund posted…
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…
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…
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…