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Officials Confirm 3 Cases of Cholera in NYC

NEW YORK - New York City officials have confirmed that three New Yorkers contracted cholera while in the Dominican Republic for a wedding. The Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, where thousands have died from the disease. A medical epidemiologist for the city Department of Health and Mental...

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 Cholera Riots Lessen, 3rd Protester Killed

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 17) -- Anti-U.N. rioting fueled by cholera fears scaled down in northern Haiti on Wednesday, but a third demonstrator was killed in clashes and small-scale demonstrations took to the streets of the capital. Florida health officials, meanwhile, confirmed a case of cholera in a woman who had...

Cholera Comes to US: Fla. Woman Who Visited Haiti Is Diagnosed

(Nov. 17) -- It's bad, and it's spreading. A Florida woman has been diagnosed with cholera after returning home from a visit to her family's home in Haiti, The Miami Herald reports. This marks the first case of the highly contagious disease in the United States since an epidemic spread through Haiti in the past few...

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...

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06/01/12 Doctors Without Borders Completes Cholera Campaign in... Source: Voice of America (VOA) The medical aid group, Doctors Without Borders, has vaccinated more than 100,000 people against cholera in Guinea.
06/01/12 Transparency needed on the cholera vaccination... Source: The Independent of Bangladesh Lack of transparency prevails widely in the cholera vaccination of programme of the World Health Organization (WHO).
05/31/12 Haitian baby dies just days after returning from... Source: Iowa City Press-Citizen - Iowa City IA The feel-good story of a Haitian baby brought to the U.S. for a critical surgery by a team of University of Iowa doctors has taken a tragic turn.
05/31/12 Summary of Notifiable Diseases â United States, 2010 Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) The contains the official statistics, in tabular and graphic form, for the reported occurrence of nationally notifiable infectious diseases in the United States for 2010.
05/31/12 â¢ 4 Kenyan policemen wounded on border Source: Coast Week Four Kenyan policemen were wounded Tuesday in an ambush by suspected Somali gunmen in the restive frontier region bordering war-ravaged Somalia, authorities said Wednesday.