Cholera resurfaces in Haiti, at least 7 reported dead

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Mon, 2022-10-03 08:54 — mike kraft

Cholera resurfaces in Haiti as gangs imperil water and hospital access Haiti had gone three years without a new cholera case, after an outbreak in 2010 killed more than 10,000 people. Washington Post

At least one person has died of cholera in Haiti, officials said this week, stoking fears of an outbreak as widespread gang control over several parts of the country worsens access to fuel, clean drinking water and medical care.

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Two confirmed cases, one resulting in death, of the acute diarrheal illness — which killed more than 10,000 people in the country more than a decade ago — have been detected so far, Haitian Health Ministry officials said during a news conference Sunday.

After three years with no new cases, the government’s announcement of a potential outbreak on Sunday intensified fear about public health crises in the poor and politically unstable country.

Haiti is still reeling after last year’s assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, and gangs have violently tightened their chokehold on several parts of the country. More than 470 people in Haiti were killed, injured or unaccounted for amid a wave of heightened violence between July 8 and July 17 this year, the United Nations said, and at least 3,000 people had fled their homes. Many are also trapped inside their neighborhoods, unable to access key supplies like medicine and food.

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