Information About Haiti

Health authorities in Haiti say a deadly cholera outbreak is beginning to stabilize.

Calling Haiti’s cholera outbreak “an extremely serious situation,” a United Nations official expressed concern Monday that the infectious disease that has already killed more than 250 people could spread and grow to “tens of thousands of cases.”

A cholera outbreak that has killed more than 250 people in rural Haiti is stabilizing, health officials said Monday, as aid groups and the government race to prevent it from spreading to the capital’s squalid camps of earthquake survivors.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Health authorities and international aid workers scrambled yesterday to keep a cholera outbreak in Haiti from spreading to the squalid camps in Port-au-Prince, where 1.3 million earthquake survivors live.

Haiti cholera deaths rose on Sunday above 250 but the number of new infections and fatalities began to taper off, offering hope the epidemic might have been contained.

Haiti cholera deaths rose above 250 but the number of new infections and fatalities began to taper off, offering hope the epidemic might have been contained.

A cholera epidemic in Haiti has killed more than 250 people, the government said on Sunday, but it added the outbreak which has sickened more than 3,000 may be stabilizing with fewer deaths and new cases reported over the last 24 hours.

Haiti’s cholera crisis deepened Sunday as the first cases in the capital raised fears the epidemic could infiltrate Port-au-Prince’s squalid tent cities and spawn a major health disaster.

An epidemic of cholera that has ravaged northern and central Haiti killing 220 people has reached the country’s densely populated capital, according to UN health officials.

Health officials have said there are signs that the cholera outbreak in central Haiti may be stabilising, as fewer new cases are reported.