Haiti in dire need of soap to help combat cholera epidemic
The terrifying cholera outbreak is quickly spreading.
Related: Haitians Hot Under the Cholera
You would be to if the media implied it was your fault.
Time for a diversion:
Plethora of candidates jockey to lead Haiti
Haiti's presidential election revolves around personalities rather than parties or issues.
Just like ours, Americans!
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Monitors deem Haiti vote flawed but valid
Who could ever believe in elections again?
It's enough to make you sick:
"Cholera epidemic in Haiti overwhelming rural clinics; Health agency says 650,000 people could get infected" by Ben Fox, Associated Press / December 5, 2010
LIMBE, Haiti — A gray-haired woman, her eyes sunken and unfocused from dehydration, stumbles up a dirt path slumped on the shoulder of a young man, heading to a rural clinic so overcrowded that plastic tarps have been strung up outside to shade dozens who can’t fit inside.
On the path to the clinic, another cholera victim lies dazed, her head bleeding because she couldn’t stay atop the motorcycle taxi that carried her along the twisting country roads to the treatment center on the front line of Haiti’s sudden battle with cholera.
Nearby, a 16-month-old girl wails as a nurse prods her with a needle, trying to find a vein for the intravenous fluids she needs to save her life.
Many feared Haiti’s growing epidemic would overwhelm a capital teeming with more than 1 million people left homeless by January’s earthquake. But, so far, it is the countryside seeing the worst of an epidemic that has killed nearly 1,900 people since erupting less than two months ago.
Rural clinics are overrun by the sick, straining staff and supplies at medical outposts that could barely handle their needs before the epidemic....
Dr. Benson Sergiles, a doctor from Cap-Haitien: “It’s getting worse by the day.’’
Who stole all the aid loot?
The Health Ministry said there have been more than 80,000 cases since cholera was first detected in late October and the Pan-American Health Organization projects it could sicken 650,000 people over the next six months.
Yeah, HOW was the CHOLERA INTRODUCED?
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, reporting to the General Assembly on Friday, said that statistics about the epidemic are rough estimates because the cases are concentrated in slums and rural areas with little access to health care.
“Our teams believe the actual number of deaths and current infections may, in fact, be up to twice as high,’’ he said, adding that Haiti will require hundreds of more doctors, nurses, and thousands of community health workers to deal with the outbreak.
The cases are also rising further into the countryside, as at the little clinic near Limbe.
Fear over the spread of cholera even triggered a violent witch hunt in the remote southwestern Grand Anse region, where locals have killed at least 12 neighbors on suspicions they used “black magic’’ to infect people, national police spokesman Frantz Lerebours said.
Cholera made its first appearance on record in Haiti near the central town of Mirebalais. From there it spread north through the Artibonite region. It has sickened thousands in the capital, but it is the vast rural population that is most vulnerable because cholera is spread by bacteria in contaminated water, and poor rural people often have no access to clean water and no clinics nearby.
See: Cholera Comes to Haiti
Now watch the media try to BLAME the HAITIANS!
“Most Haitians live in rural areas, and most don’t have latrines,’’ said Dr. Louise Ivers of Partners in Health, a Boston-based aid group. “Most people have to do their business in a hole in the back garden and drink water from an unprotected source.’’
It is these people who have the fewest options when they get sick. “Why do you die from cholera? Because you don’t have access to health care,’’ Ivers said.
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Yup, U.N. DOESN'T WANT to focus on WHERE it came from -- and the MOUTHPIECE MEDIA DUTIFULLY COMPLIES!
"Haiti says cholera has killed more than 2,000" by Associated Press / December 7, 2010
A boy suffering from cholera was treated in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, yesterday. Thousands have been sickened by the disease. (Guillermo Arias/ Associated Press)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — More than 2,000 people have died of cholera since late October, Haitian officials said yesterday, and more than 91,700 others 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, it has spread to every region of the country.
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, it has spread to every region of the country.
Aid workers have tried to bring the epidemic under control but it continues to rage, especially in rural areas....
Also yesterday, a motorboat overloaded with Haitian migrants slammed into a reef off the British Virgin Islands and capsized as it tried to evade authorities. Five people were killed, including two infants.
Such is the hard life of a Haitian.
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Related: Field cut to 2 in Haiti presidential race
"Protests shake Haiti after vote; Many doubt official tally of first ballot" by Deborah Sontag, New York Times / December 9, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Violent protests, ignited by preliminary presidential election results in Haiti that were widely considered suspect, shut down this troubled country yesterday and threatened the fragile stability that has held since the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.
We just accept them here in AmeriKa now because it really doesn't matter whether red Turd A or blue Turd B wins. Both are beholden to banks and Israel.
Businesses and schools were closed, streets emptied of traffic, and the international airport was closed. Protesters set fire to the party headquarters of President Rene Preval’s chosen successor, and many hundreds marched on the Electoral Council offices, where United Nations peacekeeping troops repelled them with tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash-bang grenades.
So much for keeping the peace.
Protesters barricaded streets with heaps of earthquake rubble and burned hundreds of tires, sending plumes of black smoke into the air.
Still not cleared nearly a year later.
The marches and clashes interrupted an otherwise eerie stillness with chanting, drums, gunfire, and sirens. Haitian radio reported that four protesters had been killed....
The Nov. 28 elections were marred by disorganization, voter intimidation, the ransacking of polling stations, and fraud. Preval said yesterday that the election had been deemed valid by international observers.
I say their credibility was just flushed down the Haitian toilet -- if they had one, that is!
But electoral observers from the Organization of American States and the Caribbean countries gave a less than resounding endorsement, saying they did not believe the “irregularities, serious as they were, necessarily invalidated the election.’’
Shortly after the preliminary results were released, the US Embassy expressed its own skepticism about the “irregularities’’ of the election results and their inconsistency with findings of an independent Haitian group that had posted thousands of observers across the country. The group found Manigat and Martelly to be the front-runners.
RIGGED ELECTIONS are becoming the NORM -- if they weren't always!
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You know what news I'm looking for, readers -- and it ain't s*** politics!
"Haiti officials will recount disputed vote; Decision made after protests roiled capital" by Jonathan M. Katz, Associated Press / December 10, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Martelly’s supporters again paralyzed streets in the capital yesterday, piling earthquake rubble into barricades and squaring off with police and UN peacekeepers....
Meanwhile, scientists yesterday reported the strongest evidence yet that a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 2,000 people in Haiti can be traced to South Asia.
The analysis fits with, but does not prove, the controversial idea that the disease came from UN troops dispatched from that region.
There is NOTHING CONTROVERSIAL ABOUT IT -- except to the GLOBALISTS and their MOUTHPIECE MEDIA!
DNA analysis found that cholera bacteria recovered in Haiti were nearly identical to strains predominant in South Asia and different from those found in Latin America, researchers said.
If it is GOOD ENOUGH for CONVICTIONS in the U.S. (so much so that Massachusetts wants police to hold on to it even when they don't have a suspect) then it is GOOD ENOUGH for the Haitians!
That indicates that cholera was introduced by people, rather than arriving through ocean currents or arising within Haiti, as has been suggested, said Harvard researcher Dr. Matthew Waldor.
Nor is it the SQUALOR with Haitians have found themselves living -- for the LAST 50 YEARS!
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Also see: DNA breakthrough may help Haiti fight cholera
Yeah, now that they have identified where it came from.
"Candidates reject plan for recount in Haiti election" by Jonathan M. Katz, Associated Press / December 12, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Blockades and rock-throwing continued in a few areas, but violence had largely subsided in most parts of the capital by yesterday and many people rushed to reopened markets to stock up on food, water, fuel, and other supplies in fear that more protests could erupt.
Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska and a potential US presidential candidate, shrugged off a US travel warning and arrived in the Haitian capital yesterday, accompanying evangelist Franklin Graham on a visit expected to include cholera-treatment centers and other projects undertaken by his charity group....
The nutty Christians trying to help Catholic Haiti?
Meanwhile, US immigration authorities will resume deporting some Haitians.
WTF?
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Sending them back to what?
Haiti earthquake victim faces eviction from tent camp
Government and aid agencies, which have already built some temporary housing, have ambitious plans to build much more -- if they can find the land.
We have plenty of empty houses here in AmeriKa.
First, rubble must be cleared.
Well, what the hell have they been doing down there the past year?
It has been estimated by engineers that there's enough detritus in Port-au-Prince to fill dump trucks stretching halfway around the world. Removal is painstaking: Heavy equipment can't travel down twisting, pocked streets, and work must proceed gingerly, given the human remains and personal valuables that remain entombed.
I'm sick of the f***ing excuses!
We sure knock the stuff down fast enough with weapons of war.
Aid agencies predict some camps -- especially the big ones -- may turn into permanent urban slums akin to the city's Cite Soleil shantytown. Even if people do leave, there's no guarantee they will find a place to live.
The Western Hemisphere's version of Palestinians.
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US aid worker insists on his innocence
Haiti earthquake results in quicker US adoptions
Nothing like putting a MSM smiley-face on a pile of s***!
Yeah, the Boston Globe's gifts do stink!
