Information About Haiti

A cholera epidemic in northern Haiti has claimed 135 lives and infected 1,500 people over the last few days, Claude Surena, president of the Haitian Medical Association, said Thursday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Oct. 21 (UPI) — A cholera outbreak in Haiti, still reeling from a powerful January earthquake, has killed 135 people in recent days, a health official said Thursday.

Victims of Haiti’s cholera outbreak are being treated on hospital floors because all beds are taken.

Health officials in rural Haiti are investigating a possible disease outbreak that could be responsible for dozens of deaths and a surge in hospital patients, U.N. aid workers said Wednesday.

The Hotel Montana, a four-star resort in Haiti, came crashing down during the country’s massive Jan. 12 earthquake – a surprising collapse, since the hotel had been sturdily built on presumably solid ground.

Steady rains toppled hillsides and turned streets into rivers in the Haitian capital over the weekend, leaving at least 12 people dead and three missing, civil protection officials said Monday.

A new study finds that in addition to the underlying geology, the geometry of local surface features contributed to the temblor’s intensity.

Scientists have found that the Haiti earthquake’s energy spread in an unusual way. It turns out that the topography of the Earth’s surface is just as important as the ground underneath in determining how an earthquake spreads, a study detailed in the Oct. 17 online edition of the journal Nature Geoscience reveals.

Haiti’s brittle housing supply was shattered by the Jan. 12 earthquake, which destroyed an estimated 110,000 homes and apartment buildings. Since then, demand has soared.

Steady rains flooded portions of the Haitian capital over the weekend, turning streets into rivers and leaving at least 12 people dead, civil protection officials said Monday.