Concern in Haiti for the resurgence of Cholera

[Tonka]

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Concern in Haiti for the resurgence of Cholera
Since the beginning of the deadly outbreak last October, became ill about 360 thousand people, of whom 5500 died.

Monday July 11, 2011 International

HAITIAN WITH SYMPTOMS OF CHOLERA IN a hospital.

An old man with sunken cheeks, dehydrated and weakened, is carried on a stretcher to a clinic. Minutes later, a parent worried face enters the scene, was carrying a girl of 2 years. They are followed by another elderly patient, too weak to walk. Such scenes have become to be common in much of rural Haiti, where he has emerged a deadly cholera epidemic that swept the country late last year, fueled by weeks of heavy rains that have helped the spread of bacteria that blooms in rivers and rice fields of the Central American country.

The NGO M?decins du Monde warned of a rise in the number of people infected with cholera in Haiti, due to the rainy season, noting that many treatment centers had been closed by the low incidence of the disease.

Cholera and sickened 360,000 people and caused over 5,500 deaths since the outbreak started in October, says the Ministry of Health. The total figure is unknowable, since many Haitians living in remote rural areas have no access to medical care.

[Shiloh]

Re: Concern in Haiti for the resurgence of Cholera

Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,4930249.story

Haiti again caught in cholera's grip
More than 5,800 have died since the outbreak began in October. With the rainy season afoot, more than 1,000 new cases a day were logged in June

Reporting from Port-au-Prince, Haiti?
Instead of the commuters typically packed into the bright blue and red "tap tap" pickup truck weaving through Haiti's capital, a man, shrunken, dehydrated, dressed in a diaper and attached to an IV, lay on the floor.

As the ad-hoc ambulance in Port-au-Prince attested, cholera refuses to leave the country.

The bacterial disease that ravaged Haiti last fall had spread quickly to all regions, but calmed down in the dry spring months. With the rainy season now afoot, clinics across the country are again bustling with seriously ill patients...