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Haiti: Diphtheria cases

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Shiloh

Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=34734&Cr=&Cr1=

Diphtheria cases in Haitian camp prompt UN-backed emergency vaccination

18 May 2010 ? United Nations agencies are helping health authorities in Haiti carry out an emergency vaccination campaign after an outbreak of diphtheria in the capital, Port-au-Prince, a spokesperson with the world body said today.

Cases of the disease were first reported on Saturday in Camp Batimat in Cit? Soleil district, one of the settlements housing people displaced by the January earthquake, Christiane Berthiaume, spokesperson for the UN Children?s Fund (UNICEF), told reporters in Geneva...
 
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