GRAVE FEARS FOR MICHAEL YORK
Source: Datzhott
Cabaret :: Haiti | updated 2013-05-15 17:52:48 -0700 | health-news
Michael York has been secretly battling a rare, killer blood disorder and friends fear he's nearing the end...We all knew by his appearance there was something serious going on, but he didn't talk about it...But these last couple of years...
Christy Turlington Burns: Returning to Haiti
Source: Popeater
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2013-04-25 07:29:43 -0700 | health-news
I'm returning to Haiti this week with feelings I haven't had on too many of my previous trips -- optimism and pride. When I first visited back in January of 2012 on the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake that...
Haiti leader discharged from Miami hospital
Source: Taiwan News
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2012-06-19 14:31:03 -0700 | political-news
Haiti's government says that President Michel Martelly has been discharged from a Miami hospital following treatment for a blood clot found in his lung. Officials have not revealed the name of the hospital that he checked into after flying to...
Vaccinations Begin in a Cholera-Ravaged Haiti
Source: Newyork Times
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2012-06-13 08:18:31 -0700 | political-news
A year and a half after cholera first struck Haiti , a tiny portion of the population on Thursday began getting vaccinated against the waterborne disease that has infected more than 530,000 Haitians and killed more than 7,040. Organizers of...
UN Soldiers Blamed For Spread Of Deadly ‘Superbug’ To Americas
Posted by: dunite
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2012-07-26 01:19:05 -0700 | health-news
Leading researchers from Harvard Medical School were blaming Nepalese soldiers, who served as UN Peacekeepers, for bringing into Haiti a vicious form of cholera, they called ‘the superbug,’ that killed 7,000 people in October 2010, abc news said. The UN...
WHO Warns of Cholera Outbreak in Haiti to Number 500,000 by Year End
Posted by: myscottishfitba
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2012-04-12 16:02:34 -0700 | health-news
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned about the cholera outbreak in Haiti, saying that the number of cases is expected to reach 500,000 by the end of 2011. "If current trends continue, we can expect around 75,000 more cases...
Haiti Cholera is still alive
Posted by: Rodolfo Buccico
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2012-07-27 23:37:41 -0700 | health-news
A year after cholera broke out in the aftermath of the January 2010 Haiti earthquake, the epidemic has disappeared from the headlines, but it continues to wreak a deadly toll. Mortality rates remain high in some areas, but donor funding...
The Truth about the Haitian Cholera outbeak
Posted by: wadadli
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2012-04-13 12:06:43 -0700 | health-news
Today, it was made know by an US Center for Disease Protection, that the cholera outbreak of 2010 which claimed approximately, 5000 lives was in fact bought to Haiti by Nepalese aid workers, who went there to help after the...
Haitians turn to waste to combat cholera, deforestation
Posted by: anonymous
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2012-04-26 03:10:23 -0700 | health-news
The “biodigester”, which converts organic waste to biogas and a liquid fertilizer rich in nutrients, requires little infrastructure Desperately poor Haiti is finding a cheap source of fuel in recycling human excrement, a move that could help put a dent...
Haiti cholera 'far worse than expected', experts fear
Posted by: anonymous
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2013-03-24 06:16:28 -0700 | health-news
The cholera epidemic which is affecting Haiti looks set to be far worse than officials had thought, the experts fear. Rather than affecting a predicted 400,000 people, the diarrhoeal disease may strike almost twice as many as this, latest estimates...
Cholera epidemic in Haiti could affect up to 800, 000
Posted by: SaraE
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2012-04-09 07:55:28 -0700 | health-news
Up to 800,000 people could contract cholera in Haiti this year, according to a new study conducted by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Harvard Medical School. This estimate is almost double that of the United Nations...
Government probes mystery paralysis cases
Source: The Courier-Mail
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2011-04-01 12:06:46 -0700 | travel-news
AS IF a cholera epidemic were not enough, Haitian health authorities are investigating the sudden deaths of more than a dozen people after a voodoo ceremony and a deadly spate of paralysis in recovering cholera patients. Ariel Henry, chief of...
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