Port-au-Prince.– The
death toll in Haiti's cholera epidemic climbed on Thursday to 800,
according to an American medical expert, but U.S. health authorities
said the risk of widespread transmission to the United States was low,
given good sanitation there.
Fatalities from the diarrheal disease have risen steadily since the
start of the outbreak more than three weeks ago in the poor Caribbean
nation, which is struggling to recover from the effects of a devastating
January 12 earthquake.
According to Ezra Barzilay, an epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), the emergency created by
the epidemic was worsening. “As of November 8, we had about 640 deaths. Today we are at
800,” he said.
Haiti's epidemic, which was
worsened by flooding caused by Hurricane Tomas this month, has piled
another humanitarian emergency on the Western Hemisphere's poorest
state, whose capital was wrecked by the January earthquake that killed
more than 250,000 people.
Written by: Tommy, 13 Nov 2010 12:18 PM
From: Canada, Northern Ontario
The f....g Government has to accept most of the responsibility for this.
There is a vaccine for cholera available.
I got it last week.
All it takes is a bit of cash. Those half dozen non-Haitian families that control
everything should start handing out thier stolen cash!
That's all!
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
@Tommy
Those families couldn't care less. They are merchants, not do-gooders.
They probably think there's too much people in the country, and natural selection/survival of the fittest will reduce significantly the population.
Thay need people with buying power, not half-dead zombies living in tents and occupying the best area in PAP..
It's like the seven plagues of Egypt.
Written by: ings0389, 13 Nov 2010 1:47 PM
From: United States
Holy shit, the last comment was so strong, but definitely true.
It does take just a simple vaccination, but Haiti can't afford anything (it is the poorest state in America). I hope that things get better, and that international help will get the number of vaccination needed to prevent more deaths, and the proper treatment for those who have it.
Apparently some people from Nepal went to Haiti and pooped by a river and that's how it was transmitted to everyone. So, I know these people are poor, but please respect them! Don't go there if you're sick, and if you don't know, please don't randomly poop!! (WHAT THE HELL!!)
I'm hoping as well that this won't go into the Dominican Rep., because there was no cholera in this island. I'm hoping this will be taken care of!
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
@ings
Come on, man.
Those "people from Nepal" are military, members of Minustah.
Whether from Nepal or Zimbabwe, those guys are medically checked before they're sent out on missions.
Putting the blame on others and waiting for somebody else to help out while doing nothing is a big component of the Haitian problem.
Written by: ings0389, 13 Nov 2010 2:42 PM
From: United States
@walterpolo
How is Haiti going to help itself when they can't even afford vaccination against a disease that is preventable?
Also, the island didn't have any cholera (Even, ever) until the helping missions of Nepal... they are medically checked: apparently not.
Is not that there's nothing done, obviously things are tying to be done... who's going to do it, the government? I don't think so... obviously the people can't do anything (if they could, they wouldn't be dying right now).
Haiti has had a series of disasters altogether, the earthquake, the cholera, and the floods that made it worse! If they can't deal with one, impossible that they would deal with all
From: Dominican Republic
Wasn't the birth of Haiti, the first black republic, as a result of a revolution? The time has long since passed since they were due for another one. Sending in help will only prolong the agony and the misery. The Haitians need to stop being so passive. They need to wrest control of their country from the families who are exploiting them. There is no other way.
Written by: Atabey, 13 Nov 2010 3:59 PM
From: United States, NYC
First, it's probably 99% certain that the Cholera epidemic came from the Nepal contingency in Haiti. Check out my post on the Forum section and read the relevant articles. The reason while this hasn't been made official is that the international authorities don't want to create more headaches and give power to potential unrest in Haiti. Right now it doesn't really matter much "How it started", what does matter is getting the epidemic under control; that's still not assured. As for the pills, the cost factor is the main reason for why it's not being considered at this time. 10 dollars per pill, I believe. Also, I'm not sure but with the conditions within the camps and other sites being PRIME grounds for the continued spread of Cholera, the pill may not be as effective as most people assume under these conditions.
Written by: Atabey, 13 Nov 2010 4:37 PM
From: United States, NYC
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Written by: Atabey, 13 Nov 2010 4:37 PM
From: United States, NYC
Medical Author: Charles Davis, MD, PhD
Medical Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
Again, a cholera epidemic strikes a human population. This time the cholera epidemic is in Haiti, a small country that has undergone large disasters. On Jan. 12, 2010, a huge earthquake killed over 300,000 people, leaving Haiti with a huge homeless population and its main city, Port-au-Prince, devoid of most normal services and sanitary conditions. Many city residents left, but the more rural areas were not any better at supplying people with sanitary conditions. Many Haitians simply turned to their largest river in the country for water to drink, bathe, wash clothes, and swim in. This is a perfect environment for the development and spread of cholera and other diseases.
As of Nov. 13, 2010, at least 800 people have died from cholera in Haiti.
Researchers speculate that someone imported cholera to Haiti since the disease has not been seen there in over 50 years; bacterial genetic studies are
Written by: Atabey, 13 Nov 2010 4:38 PM
From: United States, NYC
being done at Harvard Medical School to help determine the source. Whatever the source, it is clear that Vibrio cholerae bacteria have arrived and spread widely as the organisms can now even be isolated from river water.
Because the bacteria cause an initial painless watery diarrhea (it appears to resemble "rice water" and smells fishy) and are present in diarrhea fluid often in large numbers, Vibrio strains help spread themselves into the environment. Many "fortunate" patients may have mild diarrhea (about 70%-80%) and not know they have cholera. Others have such aggressive diarrhea (250 ml/Kg fluid loss over 24 hours) that they develop nausea, vomiting, and stomach cramps. These patients quickly become dehydrated and so weak that the ill individuals soil themselves and their immediate surroundings and cannot clean up after themselves. Such patients, unless quickly treated with oral and IV fluids and frequently antibiotics, may die from dehydration (hypovolemic shock) and
Written by: Atabey, 13 Nov 2010 4:40 PM
From: United States, NYC
electrolyte abnormalities. Pregnant females, infants, and small children are more susceptible to severe illness than the general population. Children often appear sleepy and can lapse into a coma. In susceptible individuals, death can ensue in a matter of hours after symptoms appear. In some populations that have not experienced cholera in many years, untreated patients can have a 50% death rate.
The history of cholera outbreaks keeps repeating; in the last 10 years, there have been significant outbreaks in India, Iran, Vietnam, and several African countries. For example, currently in Nigeria, as of Oct. 26, at least 1,555 deaths have occurred in its ongoing outbreak and the outbreak has spread to the neighboring country of Cameroon, where cholera deaths have started to claim lives. The repeating cholera is likely due to the repeated human problems; the Nigerian health minister estimates that two-thirds of Nigerians have no access to safe drinking water and 60% of the population
Written by: Atabey, 13 Nov 2010 4:42 PM
From: United States, NYC
have access no toilet facilities of any kind. It seems fairly simple to state that if governments and world organizations want to break this pattern of repeating cholera outbreaks, the best place to start is to make safe and sanitary water supplies, and provide toilet facilities and food to impoverished people or to people in disaster areas where such items have been compromised. Doing it is another story.
REFERENCES:
United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Cholera." Oct. 22, 2010. <
http://www.medicinenet.com/cholera/article.htm>.United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Cholera Confirmed in Haiti, October 21, 2010." Oct. 22, 2010. <
http://www.cdc.gov/haiticholera/>.From: United States
i have a home in pop how do i get vaccinated in the states before returning to pop? is it necessary to get the vaccination for cholera before coming back
From: China, shanghai
Cuba Crash associated with earthquakes Flood.
Last year the United Nations after the plane crashed in Dominica and Haiti. Email to the United Nations, "earthquakes will occur in that region and weather disasters. Simultaneously or successively sent to the Dominican Republic that note for \ Haiti \ Jamaica \ Cuba, many newspaper Web sites. But no one seriously. Including Chile earthquake and New Zealand, earthquake prediction. Now Cuba has emerged a plane crash. all in www,.shaodl.com I do not know how to do.
UN recovers 11 victims from Haiti plane crash - DominicanToday.com
From: China, shanghai
Cuba Crash associated with earthquakes Flood.
Last year the United Nations after the plane crashed in Dominica and Haiti. Email to the United Nations, "earthquakes will occur in that region and weather disasters. Simultaneously or successively sent to the Dominican Republic that note for \ Haiti \ Jamaica \ Cuba, many newspaper Web sites. But no one seriously. Including Chile earthquake and New Zealand, earthquake prediction. Now Cuba has emerged a plane crash. all in www.shaodl.com
I do not know how to do.
UN recovers 11 victims from Haiti plane crash - DominicanToday.com
From: Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Oh my goodness what is happening to my country lord have mercy please! Seigneur, ayez pitie de Haiti s'il vous plait.
From: United States, en Delaware-de boca chica
La biblia lo dice en los ultimos dias van aver terremotots, plagas. E que tamo viendo? Ta feo y se va poner mas feo. Buscen de Dios mientras se puede. Estamos en los ultimos dias hasta un ciego lo puede ver.
Written by: ings0389, 14 Nov 2010 2:33 AM
From: United States
@tatequieto,
I agree with you so much. Oye, por cierto, de que religion eres?
Es que yo tambien estudio la Biblia y es que parece que nadie entiende eso que dijiste. Pero yo lo he estudiado, y solo de curiosidad queria preguntarte.
From: United States, I dont even live inside a house , I haunt one!
If haiti government wanted to , they could stop the outbreak by providing round the clock mobile vaccination to the public .There just to corrupted and stupid to do anything for there people.
Written by: Atabey, 15 Nov 2010 3:59 PM
From: United States, NYC
Riots in Cap Haitian and shots have been reported. No confirmation on deaths. People are extremely upset-Who could blame them?-about their conditions and the growing realization that before the epidemic is stabilized, more deaths and desperate days and months? await. They want action and NOW! This has the markings of a pre-national rebellion stage and if this violence spreads EVERYONE is potentially in harms way. The doctors and nursing staff will seek their personal protection in many cases, thus denying patients their care, and the growing numbers will not stop for this rebellion to end; the numbers will grow and the Cholera problem could possibly metastasize to a massive outbreak. Then what?
LF you better be thinking about this possibility.
From: Dominican Republic, calle A.Portes
Atabey ,,you wrote that it is 99% certain that the cholera started from the UN forces from Nepal ..well you are wrong because they have all tested negative as of the news tonight
Written by: Atabey, 16 Nov 2010 2:18 AM
From: United States, NYC
Post your site. If I'm wrong on that score I have no problema admitting it. But please note that the situation is rather volatile in Haiti, and that the last thing the international community needs at this moment is a confirmation of the generalized belief that this Cholera was brought into Haiti from outside. It could be that climatic conditions and the vastness of unsanitary places finally released previously dormant strains of Cholera in Haiti. But note that the UN wishes to clear this issue with as little direct connection to the on-going humanitarian efforts in Haiti. The UN would not be the first international Organization to sway matters into more ameliorating terms Ricardolito. Still, I'm interested in your source, so post it!
From: United States
Nepalese or not....everyone agrees the asian strain was imported into the island.
Haiti is not in Asia.
Written by: Atabey, 21 Nov 2010 6:45 PM
From: United States, NYC
Peacekeepers 'brought cholera to Haiti'
United Nations reluctantly agrees to investigate convincing claims Nepalese troops imported disease
By Nina Lakhani
Sunday, 21 November 2010
Allegations that UN peacekeepers are the source of Haiti's cholera epidemic are being formally investigated by the organisation.
Despite weeks of denials by the UN and the World Health Organisation (WHO), there seems little doubt now that the deadly bacterium, which has left thousands of people sick or dead, was brought into the country by infected troops from Nepal, where the disease has broken out several times this summer.
The UN's previous dismissals of the claims were a primary factor in riots that paralysed parts of Haiti last week. At least three people were killed and dozens injured as unrest spread from the north to the capital last Thursday amid growing anger at the UN's defiance.
Ricardolito??? What have you to say?
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There is a vaccine for cholera available.
I got it last week.
All it takes is a bit of cash. Those half dozen non-Haitian families that control
everything should start handing out thier stolen cash!
That's all!
Those families couldn't care less. They are merchants, not do-gooders.
They probably think there's too much people in the country, and natural selection/survival of the fittest will reduce significantly the population.
Thay need people with buying power, not half-dead zombies living in tents and occupying the best area in PAP..
It's like the seven plagues of Egypt.
It does take just a simple vaccination, but Haiti can't afford anything (it is the poorest state in America). I hope that things get better, and that international help will get the number of vaccination needed to prevent more deaths, and the proper treatment for those who have it.
Apparently some people from Nepal went to Haiti and pooped by a river and that's how it was transmitted to everyone. So, I know these people are poor, but please respect them! Don't go there if you're sick, and if you don't know, please don't randomly poop!! (WHAT THE HELL!!)
I'm hoping as well that this won't go into the Dominican Rep., because there was no cholera in this island. I'm hoping this will be taken care of!
Come on, man.
Those "people from Nepal" are military, members of Minustah.
Whether from Nepal or Zimbabwe, those guys are medically checked before they're sent out on missions.
Putting the blame on others and waiting for somebody else to help out while doing nothing is a big component of the Haitian problem.
How is Haiti going to help itself when they can't even afford vaccination against a disease that is preventable?
Also, the island didn't have any cholera (Even, ever) until the helping missions of Nepal... they are medically checked: apparently not.
Is not that there's nothing done, obviously things are tying to be done... who's going to do it, the government? I don't think so... obviously the people can't do anything (if they could, they wouldn't be dying right now).
Haiti has had a series of disasters altogether, the earthquake, the cholera, and the floods that made it worse! If they can't deal with one, impossible that they would deal with all
Medical Author: Charles Davis, MD, PhD
Medical Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
Again, a cholera epidemic strikes a human population. This time the cholera epidemic is in Haiti, a small country that has undergone large disasters. On Jan. 12, 2010, a huge earthquake killed over 300,000 people, leaving Haiti with a huge homeless population and its main city, Port-au-Prince, devoid of most normal services and sanitary conditions. Many city residents left, but the more rural areas were not any better at supplying people with sanitary conditions. Many Haitians simply turned to their largest river in the country for water to drink, bathe, wash clothes, and swim in. This is a perfect environment for the development and spread of cholera and other diseases.
As of Nov. 13, 2010, at least 800 people have died from cholera in Haiti.
Researchers speculate that someone imported cholera to Haiti since the disease has not been seen there in over 50 years; bacterial genetic studies are
Because the bacteria cause an initial painless watery diarrhea (it appears to resemble "rice water" and smells fishy) and are present in diarrhea fluid often in large numbers, Vibrio strains help spread themselves into the environment. Many "fortunate" patients may have mild diarrhea (about 70%-80%) and not know they have cholera. Others have such aggressive diarrhea (250 ml/Kg fluid loss over 24 hours) that they develop nausea, vomiting, and stomach cramps. These patients quickly become dehydrated and so weak that the ill individuals soil themselves and their immediate surroundings and cannot clean up after themselves. Such patients, unless quickly treated with oral and IV fluids and frequently antibiotics, may die from dehydration (hypovolemic shock) and
The history of cholera outbreaks keeps repeating; in the last 10 years, there have been significant outbreaks in India, Iran, Vietnam, and several African countries. For example, currently in Nigeria, as of Oct. 26, at least 1,555 deaths have occurred in its ongoing outbreak and the outbreak has spread to the neighboring country of Cameroon, where cholera deaths have started to claim lives. The repeating cholera is likely due to the repeated human problems; the Nigerian health minister estimates that two-thirds of Nigerians have no access to safe drinking water and 60% of the population
REFERENCES:
United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Cholera." Oct. 22, 2010. <http://www.medicinenet.com/cholera/article.htm>.
United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Cholera Confirmed in Haiti, October 21, 2010." Oct. 22, 2010. <http://www.cdc.gov/haiticholera/>.
Cuba Crash associated with earthquakes Flood.
Last year the United Nations after the plane crashed in Dominica and Haiti. Email to the United Nations, "earthquakes will occur in that region and weather disasters. Simultaneously or successively sent to the Dominican Republic that note for \ Haiti \ Jamaica \ Cuba, many newspaper Web sites. But no one seriously. Including Chile earthquake and New Zealand, earthquake prediction. Now Cuba has emerged a plane crash. all in www,.shaodl.com I do not know how to do.
UN recovers 11 victims from Haiti plane crash - DominicanToday.com
Cuba Crash associated with earthquakes Flood.
Last year the United Nations after the plane crashed in Dominica and Haiti. Email to the United Nations, "earthquakes will occur in that region and weather disasters. Simultaneously or successively sent to the Dominican Republic that note for \ Haiti \ Jamaica \ Cuba, many newspaper Web sites. But no one seriously. Including Chile earthquake and New Zealand, earthquake prediction. Now Cuba has emerged a plane crash. all in www.shaodl.com
I do not know how to do.
UN recovers 11 victims from Haiti plane crash - DominicanToday.com
I agree with you so much. Oye, por cierto, de que religion eres?
Es que yo tambien estudio la Biblia y es que parece que nadie entiende eso que dijiste. Pero yo lo he estudiado, y solo de curiosidad queria preguntarte.
LF you better be thinking about this possibility.
Haiti is not in Asia.
United Nations reluctantly agrees to investigate convincing claims Nepalese troops imported disease
By Nina Lakhani
Sunday, 21 November 2010
Allegations that UN peacekeepers are the source of Haiti's cholera epidemic are being formally investigated by the organisation.
Despite weeks of denials by the UN and the World Health Organisation (WHO), there seems little doubt now that the deadly bacterium, which has left thousands of people sick or dead, was brought into the country by infected troops from Nepal, where the disease has broken out several times this summer.
The UN's previous dismissals of the claims were a primary factor in riots that paralysed parts of Haiti last week. At least three people were killed and dozens injured as unrest spread from the north to the capital last Thursday amid growing anger at the UN's defiance.
Ricardolito??? What have you to say?