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Protests Over Cholera Spread to Haitian Capital

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 19) -- Haitians angry over the cholera epidemic ignored exhortations from health workers to stop violence that is disrupting treatment efforts, and authorities feared more unrest in the capital Friday. Violence spread into Port-au-Prince for the first time Thursday after three days of upheaval...

Haiti's President Appeals for Calm in UN Riots

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 17) -- Haiti's president appealed for calm amid fears that riots aimed at U.N. peacekeepers over a cholera epidemic could spread to the capital Wednesday, saying the violence has hurt efforts to fight the disease. In a national address after health officials announced that the death toll from...

Sudden Death by Cholera a Mystery to Haitians

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 11) -- Claudette Brianvil's husband, Jean-Anel Pierre, says his wife loved to cook. And go to church. These are such ordinary details that it becomes easy to forget how extraordinary her death was. And not just because she was the mother of four young children. Claudette died of cholera, a...

Nepalese Mission Investigated as Possible Source of Cholera in Haiti

(Oct. 28) -- U.N. investigators are testing samples from a stream of human waste flowing behind a Nepalese peacekeeping base in Mirebalais, Haiti, as a potential source of the cholera outbreak in the island nation. Residents near the base and local politicians have blamed the Nepalese contingency for spurring the recent...

Cholera Fears Spark Anti-Clinic Protest in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Oct. 27) -- Protesters threw rocks at a cholera treatment center as it was preparing to open in the city of St. Marc on Tuesday, highlighting the fear surrounding a disease that was almost unknown in Haiti before it began spreading through the countryside, aid workers said. Some of the roughly 300...

Background on cholera outbreak

Although much is known about the mechanisms behind the spread of cholera, this has not led to a full understanding of what makes cholera outbreaks happen some places and not others.

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