Information About Haiti

The cholera outbreak in Haiti blamed for 135 deaths is of a strain that is the most dangerous, Health Minister Alex Larsen said Friday as the government and relief groups scrambled to battle the disease.

Quake-hit Haiti and its aid partners fought Friday to stem a cholera epidemic that has killed at least 140 people and sickened hundreds as experts said more cases could be expected before it was contained.

The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Haiti has risen to more than 150 confirmed deaths, according to health officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Haiti’s government and its aid partners fought on Friday to contain a cholera epidemic that has killed at least 138 people in the nation’s worst medical emergency since the January 12 earthquake.

The earthquake may not be the cause, but the country has one advantage: immense amounts of antibiotics sent in after the disaster

At least 208 people have died in a cholera epidemic in Haiti, authorities said Saturday, as thousands of people overwhelmed hospitals and clinics in the impoverished country.

Nearly 140 people have died in central Haiti in an outbreak of suspected cholera, Haitian health officials said on Thursday as they faced the country’s biggest medical crisis since the January 12 earthquake.

A cholera epidemic in northern Haiti has claimed 135 lives and infected 1,500 people, an official said Thursday amid concerns of a wider outbreak in the impoverished nation.

Haiti on Thursday launched two new mango processing factories that will help farmers export more of the juicy tropical fruit that is a $10 million-a-year business in the impoverished country.

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.