Cholera

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April 2, 2023
Cases are highest in the neighborhood of Icidua, where most residents live in bamboo or adobe mud huts and fetch…
January 25, 2023
Malawi’s cholera outbreak has claimed more than 1,000 lives, according to the country’s health minister, who warned that some cultural...
November 25, 2022
A cholera outbreak sweeping through Haiti is claiming a growing number of children amid a surge in malnutrition, UNICEF announced…
October 29, 2022
Haiti's limits are being tested as dozens have died from cholera as a fast-spreading outbreak strains resources amid a shortage…
October 20, 2022
In 2010, cholera killed nearly 10,000 people in Haiti after the disease was imported there by U.N. peacekeepers.
June 19, 2012
Many had thought that United Nations peacekeeping soldiers brought cholera to earthquake ravaged Haiti in October 2010...
August 15, 2011
SOMALIA - "My son was my world," she says, "even at eight, he helped me with the younger children. I…
May 4, 2011
U.S.-based Partners in Health reports that the number of new cases has tripled in recent weeks at a clinic in…
February 4, 2011
MIAMI (AP) - Deporting sick Haitians could jeopardize their lives because of the unsanitary conditions in the Haitian jails where…
January 27, 2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Health officials are looking into the cases of four people who became paralyzed in northwestern Haiti…
January 11, 2011
GENEVA (AP) - More than 170,000 people have been infected since the epidemic began in October...
January 7, 2011
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The panel will present a written report of its findings to the U.N. chief and the…
December 24, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - At least 45 people have been killed across Haiti due to accusations they are using "black…
December 7, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux concluded that the cholera originated in a tributary of Haiti's Artibonite river, next…
December 3, 2010
LIMBE, Haiti (AP) - At the three-room clinic near Limbe, in northern Haiti, a handful of doctors and nurses are…
December 1, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Rampant disorganization and allegations of fraud hang over Sunday's critical vote for president, a third of…
November 29, 2010
OPINION - Ensuring that this election is carried out in a way that provides every voter full and fair access…
November 29, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitians entered election day hoping for the best. Within hours, ballot boxes were ripped to pieces,…
November 27, 2010
OPINION - Certainly, the experience in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina provides a number of lessons that may be instructive…
November 24, 2010
theGRIO VIDEO - Jean recently visited Haiti to help the country combat the outbreak of cholera...