Information About Haiti

The death toll in Haiti’s cholera epidemic climbed on Thursday, reaching 800, according to a U.S. medical expert who expressed concern about risk of transmission to the United States and other countries.

The first portion of U.S. reconstruction money for Haiti is on its way more than seven months after it was promised to help the country rebuild from the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Haiti’s cholera crisis deepened on Thursday as the toll soared again and three more deaths in the teeming capital raised fears the epidemic could be set to explode in unsanitary camps full of earthquake survivors.

Aid groups fought Thursday to halt the spread of cholera in Haiti’s teeming capital, where makeshift camps crammed with earthquake survivors are ripe ground for the epidemic to take hold.

Haiti desperately sought on Wednesday to halt a cholera epidemic that threatens to spiral out of control after reaching the capital’s crowded slums, where 73 cases and one death have so far been recorded.

Aid groups fought to halt the spread of diesease in Haiti’s teeming capital.

A cholera epidemic has spread into Haiti’s capital, imperiling nearly 3 million people living in Port-au-Prince, nearly half of them in unsanitary tent camps for the homeless from the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Fears are growing in Haiti over the spread of cholera, as the death toll rises to 644 across the poverty-stricken nation.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Nov. 11 (UPI) — The death toll from the cholera outbreak in Haiti has reached 643 with just under 10,000 cases of the disease reported, the United Nations says.

Haitian officials confirm scores of people are being treated for cholera in the capital, amid warnings it will take years to rid the country of the disease.