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State Dept – Cholera Mortality Rate Is Decreasing in Haiti

Posted in Cholera by envhealth@usaid on November 16, 2010 Edit This

Source: Government of the United States of America; United States Department of State
Date: 15 Nov 2010

Washington — Although the number of Haitians infected with cholera continues to climb, the overall mortality rate from the disease is decreasing, thanks to efforts by the Haitian government and U.S. and other international partners to halt the spread of the disease, State Department Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Philip J. Crowley says.

Speaking to reporters in Washington November 15, Crowley acknowledged that the mortality rate “is still higher than we’d like,” with the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population reporting November 14 that the outbreak has claimed 917 lives and resulted in 14,642 hospitalizations.

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Photographing Cholera’s Awful Toll in Haiti

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If you thought that Emilio Morenatti would have had enough of the world’s hot spots after he lost his left foot in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan 15 months ago, then you’re not thinking like a photojournalist.

Mr. Morenatti has returned to the worst of it, covering the cholera epidemic in Haiti, which had killed more than 900 people by Sunday. His work is presented here along with pictures by Ramon Espinosa of The Associated Press, Andres Martinez Casares of the European Pressphoto Agency and Damon Winter of The New York Times.

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Cholera Backlash Fuels Anti-U.N. Protests In Haiti

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November 16, 2010 – Anti-U.N. riots spread to several Haitian cities and towns, as protesters blaming a contingent of Nepalese peacekeepers for a deadly outbreak of cholera barricaded roads and exchanged gunfire with U.N. soldiers in clashes that lasted late into the night.

The protests left at least one person dead, a demonstrator who was shot by a U.N. peacekeeper during an exchange of gunfire in Quartier Morin, near Haiti’s second-largest city of Cap-Haitien, the United Nations mission said. It said it was investigating the shooting but asserted the soldier acted in self-defense.

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