Haiti reports cholera deaths for first time in 3 years
Source: AP
By EVENS SANON
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) Haitis government on Sunday announced that at least eight people have died from cholera, raising concerns about a potentially fast-spreading scenario and reviving memories of an epidemic that killed nearly 10,000 people a decade ago.
The cases - the first cholera deaths reported in three years - came in a community called Dekayet in southern Port-au-Prince and in the gang-controlled seaside slum of Cite de Soleil, where thousands of people live in cramped, unsanitary conditions.
Cholera is something that can spread very, very quickly, warned Laure Adrien, director general of Haitis health ministry.
Food or water contaminated with the cholera bacteria can lead to severe diarrhea and dehydration that can be deadly.
FILE - A boy diagnosed with cholera receives treatment at a cholera center in Anse D'Hainault, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. Haitis government on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022, announced that at least eight people have died from cholera for the first time in three years, raising concerns about another potential catastrophic epidemic like the one that broke out a decade ago and killed nearly 10,000 people. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)
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cbabe
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Farmer-Rick
(10,202 posts)The 1940s but it has stunted the country eversince.
Imagine buying you own freedom? Slavery always did work well with capitalism.
SunSeeker
(51,664 posts)The UN sent them there after the Haiti earthquake in 2010. 10,000 Haitians died from that outbreak, and cholera is now endemic in Haiti. Thanks for nothing again, UN.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_Haiti_cholera_outbreak