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January 11, 2011
GENEVA (AP) - More than 170,000 people have been infected since the epidemic began in October...
January 7, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Health officials estimate that by the time the disease is completely eradicated, more than 400,000 patients will…
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 21, 2010
OPINION - The costs of these drugs and treatments tend to be prohibitive, making them inaccessible to most...
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
OPINION - The reality is that we (the human family) have fallen short and many suffer and die each day…
November 19, 2010
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The nation of almost 50 million has more people than any other country with the virus that…
November 19, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The upheaval over a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 1,100 people comes just days…
November 17, 2010
CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti (AP) - The rapidly spreading disease is even infecting the presidential campaign, with candidates trying both to protect…
November 15, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitian President Rene Preval is giving citizens tips on fighting the rapid spread of cholera...
November 9, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Officials are concerned that floods triggered by Hurricane Tomas on Friday and Saturday could exacerbate the…
October 28, 2010
MIREBALAIS, Haiti (AP) - U.N. investigators took samples of foul-smelling waste trickling behind a Nepalese peacekeeping base toward an infected…
October 26, 2010
theGRIO VIDEO - Almost every woman in the family for this have battled with the same cruel enemy for last…
October 25, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - If efforts to keep cholera out of the camps fail, "The worst case would be that…
October 22, 2010
ST. MARC, Haiti (AP) - Haitian officials, including President Rene Preval, have been pointing to the lack of severe disease…
October 14, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the numbers Thursday. The report says the lifetime risk…
September 13, 2010
One of three new antibiotics found is capable of neutralizing HIV strains, about 91 percent of it...
July 13, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Approximately 56,000 people in the U.S. become infected each year with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS,…
May 27, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - Bushmeat, or meat from wild animals such as elephant, bat or chimpanzee, is a prized foodstuff in…