Health officials in Haiti on Thursday said they were preparing for a likely surge in cholera cases in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, which severely
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Six people died of Cholera in a hospital in the southern town of Randel, which is inland near a river, and another seven died in the western coasta
JEREMIE, Haiti – People across southwest Haiti were digging through the wreckage of their homes Friday, salvaging what they could of their meager p
Cholera outbreaks have killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, government officials told Reuters on Saturday
SANAA – War-torn Yemen is suffering from a cholera outbreak, the UN's children agency said Friday, posing a further threat to infants in the i
SANA’A, 7 October 2016 - Health authorities in Yemen confirmed a cholera outbreak on Thursday, 6 October, posing an increased health risk to the po
Some 61,500 people were in shelters, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said in a statement.
9,000 people died in Haiti’s last cholera outbreak. We must act fast in disaster-affected hotspots to help prevent history repeating itself
LES CAYES, Haiti (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Health officials in Haiti on Thursday said they were preparing for a likely surge in cholera cases
Haitian officials postponed the presidential elections, which had been scheduled for Sunday, due to the hurricane.
International aid has at times made things worse. Following the 2010 earthquake, U.N.
CHANTAL, Haiti/PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Hurricane Matthew’s trail of destruction in Haiti stunned those emerging from the aftermath on Friday, wi
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The number of cholera cases in Haiti is expected to rise steeply through the end of the year in the wake of Hurricane Matthew.
Partners in Health, which has worked in Haiti for nearly three decades, warned that the hurricane would likely worsen the country's cholera ep
LES CAYES, Haiti (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Health officials in Haiti on Thursday said they were preparing for a likely surge in cholera cases
Health officials in Haiti fear a surge in cholera cases in the wake of Hurricane Matthew.
As the Haitian government and international aid groups work to determine the immediate toll in death and destruction from Hurricane Matthew, health
Médecins Sans Frontières was awarded the Prize for the Welfare Betterment category, for its contributions to the treatment and control of the chole
Even before the storm hit Haiti this week, the impoverished nation was struggling to stem the water-borne disease.
When Hurricane Matthew tore through the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, it left a mountain of destruction in its wake and killed at leas
Medics in Haiti are preparing for a likely surge in cholera cases as the nation is left with damaged water supplies in the wake of Hurricane Matthe
The Red Cross has launched an emergency appeal to provide immediate relief to 50,000 Haitians in the aftermath of the strongest hurricane to hit th
Washington, DC, October 6, 2016 – With damage assessments from Hurricane Matthew still underway in the Caribbean, the Pan American Health Organizat
South Sudan's cholera outbreak has spread to new areas, killing at least 37 people and infecting more than 2,450, OCHA said today.
Wangcos Laurore is the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Program Manager on our cholera response since 2011.
The Haitian government said at least 350,000 people were in need of immediate help around the country, the United Nations said.
This week, Haiti was hit by Hurricane Matthew, a Category 4 storm that destroyed thousands of homes, flooded streets, and killed at least 35 people
Following that devastating earthquake, the United Nations sent a peacekeeping force.
Matthew's ravaging winds and torrential rainfall flooded the southern part of the country, leaving behind devastating conditions for hundreds
Once the storm passes, residents could face risks from another threat: standing water.
Likely damage to sewage infrastructure and water sources threaten to worsen existing diseases in the region, including cholera, dengue fever and Zi
The first round of presidential and parliamentary elections in Haiti is set for Oct. 9; the second round is set for January.
That's how Jacqueline Charles of the Miami Herald described the situation in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in and interview with NPR Wednesday morning
Much more needs to be done to tackle the cholera outbreak in Haiti, Ban Ki-moon has said, adding that the situation is one he regrets as Secretary-
Via UPI.com: North Korea battling post-flood cholera epidemic.
Hurricane Matthew ripped through Haiti as a Category 4 storm with 145 mph winds on Tuesday, leaving villages flooded, roofs ripped from houses -- a
As Hurricane Matthew pounded Haiti yesterday with as much as 40 inches of rain and winds of up to 145 mph, Dr.
The situation has been made worse by the ensuing outbreak of Cholera, a contagious disease that can be fatal if left untreated, spreading via consu
According to researchers, this will only cause an exacerbation of the cholera epidemic, already present in Haiti.
Once the storm passes, residents could face risks from another threat -- standing water.
Once the storm passes, residents could face risks from another threat -- standing water.
Hurricane Matthew ripped through Haiti as a Category 4 storm with 145 mile per hour winds yesterday, leaving villages flooded, roofs ripped from ho
The government and aid workers also were concerned about the increased risk of cholera because of the heavy rains and the lack of access to clean d
Via Emerging Infectious Diseases: Ahead of Print -Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti.
Up to 40 inches of rain could be dumped on the impoverished nation, which is still recovering from a devastating earthquake and a cholera outbreak.
Hurricane Matthew’s heavy rains will likely worsen Haiti’s six-year-long cholera epidemic, which has already been categorized as among the world’s
In Haiti — where tens of thousands of people still live in tents after losing their homes in the 2010 earthquake that killed more than 200,000, and
Haiti prepares for a possible outbreak of cholera once Hurricane Matthew clears out.
Up to 40 inches of rain could be dumped on the impoverished nation, which is still recovering from a devastating earthquake that struck six years a