Cholera

Haiti’s limits are being tested as dozens have died from cholera as a fast-spreading outbreak strains resources amid a shortage of supplies.

In 2010, cholera killed nearly 10,000 people in Haiti after the disease was imported there by U.N. peacekeepers.

Many had thought that United Nations peacekeeping soldiers brought cholera to earthquake ravaged Haiti in October 2010…

SOMALIA – “My son was my world,” she says, “even at eight, he helped me with the younger children. I am destroyed…”

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

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…

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…

GENEVA (AP) – More than 170,000 people have been infected since the epidemic began in October…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The panel will present a written report of its findings to the U.N. chief and the Haitian government…

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…

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…

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…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Rampant disorganization and allegations of fraud hang over Sunday’s critical vote for president, a third of the Senate and all of the lower house…

OPINION – Ensuring that this election is carried out in a way that provides every voter full and fair access to the political process is paramount…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Haitians entered election day hoping for the best. Within hours, ballot boxes were ripped to pieces, protesters were on the streets…

OPINION – Certainly, the experience in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina provides a number of lessons that may be instructive as the country braces for Sunday’s elections…

theGRIO VIDEO – Jean recently visited Haiti to help the country combat the outbreak of cholera…