Cholera returns to Haiti as nation lurches from one crisis to the next, leaving cholera victims
By: Roxana Karim
Updated: Dec 29, 2014 – 5:48 PM
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Cholera returns to Haiti as nation lurches from one crisis to the next, leaving cholera victims
Cholera survivors in Haiti wait through hours of the night for treatment, knowing they will be told that they are not infected with cholera bacteria. A cholera outbreak has been raging in the country for 18 years and has yet to be resolved.
Cholera survivors in Haiti wait through hours of the night for treatment, knowing they will be told that they are not infected with cholera bacteria. A cholera outbreak has been raging in the country for 18 years and has yet to be resolved.
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At least 80 people have died from a cholera outbreak sweeping through Haiti since January, and as of Friday, more than 1,000 people, most of them sickened for a third time, had been sickened, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The United Nations fears the death toll will eventually rise to 2,000, with thousands more sick.
“It’s like a slow-moving hurricane,” Jean-Louis Brugier, president of the Caribbean Cholera Task Force, told the Associated Press earlier this month.
But for now, the disease has stopped killing, and some of the nearly 5,000 patients who have been under treatment have shown signs of recovery, said Marcellin H. Lefebvre, who runs the cholera clinic in Port-au-Prince.
“We are still seeing people that are not responding to treatment. We can’t say it�