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http://www.eltribuno.info/salta/470...iti-por-el-resurgimiento-del-colera.note.aspx
Spanish to English translation
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.
Spanish to English translation
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.
