Cholera outbreak creeps closer to Haiti's capital
(AP) -- A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts Saturday hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of earthquake...
View ArticleIn Haiti, cholera could heighten earthquake misery
(AP) -- A cholera outbreak that already has left 250 people dead and more than 3,000 sickened is at the doorstep of an enormous potential breeding ground: the squalid camps in Port-au-Prince where 1.3...
View ArticleHaiti official: Cholera outbreak is easing
(AP) -- A cholera outbreak showed signs of easing Monday after killing more than 250 people in a sweep through rural Haiti, but experts warned that the earthquake-devastated country's first bout with...
View ArticleUN probes base as source of Haiti cholera outbreak
(AP) -- U.N. investigators took samples of foul-smelling waste trickling behind a Nepalese peacekeeping base toward an infected river system on Wednesday, following persistent accusations that...
View ArticleHaiti cholera deaths rise above 300
Haiti's cholera toll rose Thursday above 300, as doctors sought desperately to contain the epidemic as victims overwhelmed the quake-hit nation's crumbling hospitals, spilling into its maternity wards.
View ArticleCDC: Haiti cholera matches South Asian strain
(AP) -- A cholera outbreak that has killed more than 300 people in Haiti matches strains commonly found in South Asia, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
View ArticleExperts: Did UN troops infect Haiti?
(AP) -- Researchers should determine whether United Nations peacekeepers were the source of a deadly outbreak of cholera in Haiti, two public health experts, including a U.N. official, said Wednesday.
View ArticleDeath toll from cholera surpasses 500 in Haiti: official
The death toll from Haiti's cholera epidemic has surpassed 500 dead, the Haitian Health Ministry reported on its website Saturday.
View ArticleGovt suspects cholera has entered Haitian capital
(AP) -- Health officials said Monday that they are examining at least 120 suspected cases of cholera in Haiti's capital, the most significant warning sign yet that the epidemic has spread from outlying...
View ArticleCholera confirmed for resident of Haiti's capital
(AP) -- The cholera epidemic has spread into Haiti's capital, imperiling nearly 3 million people living in Port-au-Prince, nearly half of them in unsanitary tent camps for the homeless from the Jan. 12...
View ArticleSurge of cholera feared in Haiti's crowded capital
(AP) -- Health workers feared a surge of cholera cases in the shantytowns and muddy tent camps of Haiti's capital as suspected cases piled up Tuesday and a laboratory confirmed a case originated in the...
View ArticleDoctors set up cholera centers in Haiti's capital
(AP) -- Doctors and aid groups are rushing to set up cholera treatment centers across Haiti's capital as officials warn that the disease's encroachment into the overcrowded city will bring a surge in...
View ArticleBattle rages in slum, this time against a disease
(AP) -- A wooden wheelbarrow is pushed to the high green gates of a slum hospital, carrying an unconscious woman, her lips white and cracked with dehydration. She is 22, and two days ago she was healthy.
View ArticleUN appeals for $164M to combat Haiti cholera
(AP) -- The United Nations asked for $164 million Friday to fight the cholera outbreak in Haiti that has already claimed 724 lives and is expected to continue spreading for up to a year.
View ArticleHaitians protest UN base over cholera claim
(AP) -- Protesters who hold Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers responsible for a deadly outbreak of cholera that has killed 1,000 in three weeks threw stones and threatened to set fire to a base in the...
View ArticleHaiti's cholera death toll grows, fueling riots
(AP) -- An outbreak of cholera has killed more than 1,000 people, the Haitian government said Tuesday as it sent top officials to the country's north in hopes of quelling violent protests against U.N....
View ArticleFirst cholera case detected in Dominican Republic: official
A first case of cholera has been detected in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas said Tuesday.
View ArticleHaiti cholera death toll hits 1,100: health officials
Health officials in Haiti announced 76 new cholera deaths Wednesday, pushing the toll to 1,100 since the disease first surfaced in the destitute Caribbean nation in late October.
View ArticleUN worries its troops caused cholera in Haiti
(AP) -- It began as a rumor that farmers saw waste from a U.N. peacekeeping base flow into a river. Within days of the talk, hundreds downstream had died from cholera.
View ArticleHaiti cholera toll hits 1,344: officials
Haitian health officials said Monday that at least 1,344 people have died from a worsening cholera epidemic that has ravaged the country since mid-October.
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