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Govt: More than 2,000 dead of cholera in Haiti
Haitian officials say more than 2,000 people have died of cholera since late October. According to the official count, more than 91,700 people have been sickened by the disease. Cholera had never been seen before in Haiti before the outbreak began along the rural Artibonite River. Due to dire sanitation and systemic health care shortages, [...]In the News
Haiti Cholera Deaths Slow, But Spread Still Feared
The rate of deaths in Haiti’s cholera epidemic slowed on Monday as a multinational medical operation scaled up to limit the spread of an outbreak that has killed 259 people in the earthquake-hit country. Despite initial encouraging signs of a decrease in the week-old outbreak’s lethality, Haitian and international health authorities warned they were still [...]In the News
Haiti May Be Primed For Another Quake
Two papers, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, take different approaches but both conclude the fault originally blamed for the quake was not the real source, and that it remains a threat. “As the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault did not release any significant accumulated elastic strain, it remains a significant seismic threat for Haiti and for [...]In the News