Scientists are trying figure out how cholera got to Haiti
Many had thought that United Nations peacekeeping soldiers brought cholera to earthquake ravaged Haiti in October 2010...
Somalia faces cholera epidemic amid famine
SOMALIA - "My son was my world," she says, "even at eight, he helped me with the younger children. I am destroyed..."
Haiti rainy season brings signs of cholera spike
U.S.-based Partners in Health reports that the number of new cases has tripled in recent weeks at a clinic in the town of Mirebalais
Int'l group wants Haitian deportations of sick to stop
MIAMI (AP) - Deporting sick Haitians could jeopardize their lives because of the unsanitary conditions in the Haitian jails where they would be detained after arriving...
Officials test for, but doubt, polio in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Health officials are looking into the cases of four people who became paralyzed in northwestern Haiti while recovering from cholera...
Haiti cholera expected to claim more lives
GENEVA (AP) - More than 170,000 people have been infected since the epidemic began in October...
UN chief: Haiti panel to investigate cholera outbreak
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The panel will present a written report of its findings to the U.N. chief and the Haitian government...
Voodoo killings reportedly rise in Haiti epidemic
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - At least 45 people have been killed across Haiti due to accusations they are using "black magic" to spread cholera, the director of a Voodoo association said Friday...
Haiti cholera likely from UN troops, expert says
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux concluded that the cholera originated in a tributary of Haiti's Artibonite river, next to a U.N. base outside the town of Mirebalais...
Cholera rages in rural Haiti, overwhelming clinics
LIMBE, Haiti (AP) - At the three-room clinic near Limbe, in northern Haiti, a handful of doctors and nurses are treating 120 people packed into three rooms...
