"Boston health team battles Haiti cholera" July 24, 2011|By Neena Satija, Globe Correspondent
At the Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles in central Haiti, a team from Massachusetts General Hospital is among those helping to fight a cholera outbreak that has rebounded since it first struck the country last October....
Cholera appeared in Haiti last year for the first time since the 1960s, and the country’s inadequate sanitation systems caused the disease to spread rapidly. The onset of the rainy season has led to a resurgence of the disease in the past few months, even as the country still reels from the January 2010 earthquake....
It is likely that the cholera outbreak originated in Mirebalais, a town of about 60,000 people about 35 miles southeast of Deschapelles. A UN peacekeeping mission had just arrived with troops from Nepal at the time, and DNA sequencing later determined that the cholera strain was from Southeast Asia.
Related: Cholera Comes to Haiti
U.N. told the papers not to talk about it, and they have not.
Also see: Haitians Hot Under the Cholera
Wouldn't you be if the UN brought cholera to you and then lied about and blamed your sanitary practices?
According to the Haitian government, more than 363,000 people have contracted the disease, and more than 5,500 have died since the epidemic began....
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Also see: Nursing teachers from Haiti learn US techniques at Regis
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You can also scroll my Haiti file to see how the Globe has been treating the cholera crisis all this time.
