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“The cholera epidemic is calming down.” Paul Marco, coordinator of Doctors Without Borders, speaks with caution. So with all the positive news in Haiti, which costs believe them. “The great peaks seem out in the last ten days. In the worst of weeks recorded 20,000 cases. Now serve about 6,000. Of course, we can not predict what might happen in Port au Prince in the coming days. And, in the south, still remains uncertain. ”

The words of hope in contrast to the strong framework to figures provided by the Government of Haiti: 3651 dead and 171,304 people infected. Artibonite, the epicenter of the epidemic, continues to lead the deadly statistics, with 837 cases. In the capital have been accounted for 475. Read the rest of this entry »

Deaths from the cholera epidemic in Haiti yesterday approached 300 people, and health experts said the disease “would seat” in the poor Caribbean nation, joining other endemic diseases like malaria and tuberculosis, while the authorities Health confirmed the first case of cholera in the capital.

The epidemic of the deadly disease that causes diarrhea mainly affecting the central regions of Artibonite and Central Plateau, with 295 cumulative deaths and three thousand 612 cases registered so far, health officials said Haitian.

Dominican Republic’s government decided to close the border with Haiti to prevent the spread of the cholera outbreak. More than a million Haitians live and work in the Dominican Republic, most of them in agriculture and seasonal workers. The government in Santo Domingo also ordered that any infected Haitians should be sent to their home country for treatment.

The representative of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in the Dominican Republic, Lilian Reneau-Vernon, yesterday warned the countries of the Caribbean region to take preventive measures against the epidemic. Read the rest of this entry »