Cholera
Nov 29 2010, Ernest

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Haiti’s much-anticipated presidential election ended Sunday as broken as the buildings around the capital city, with protests flaring across the country and nearly all the major candidates calling for the results to be tossed out..

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Yves Andre, Port-au-Prince
Widespread irregularities in Haiti’s presidential and legislative race Sunday led most candidates to call for the election to be voided.
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Gregory, Port-au-Prince
Over the past month about 1,200 Haitians have died in an outbreak of cholera while thousands more have sought treatment in hospitals.
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Alain, Port-au-Prince
Guardian Environment Network Haiti’s cholera epidemic caused by weather, say scientists
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Craig, Miami
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Crushed buildings from the January earthquake still spill out onto sidewalks here, people are collapsing from cholera at hospital doors and a...
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Deepak, Kathmandu
UNITED NATIONS: The UN has rejected the charge that Nepali peacekeepers in Haiti brought cholera to the Caribbean nation which claimed more than 1,100...
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Chad, Tempe
A Southwest Florida woman who visited family in the disease-stricken Artibonite Valley of Haiti and a Haitian construction worker who lives in the eastern Dominican...
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Andrew, Tempe
MEXICO CITY — Medical authorities in Haiti defended their decision Tuesday not to focus on finding the origins of a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 1,000...
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Shane, Kansas City
At least one man has been shot dead in clashes with UN peacekeepers in Haiti, amid a continuing cholera epidemic that has killed more than 900 people. UN troops fired...
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Erick, Los Angeles
Crowds hurled rocks, set up burning barricades and blocked roads to protest over the foreign troops and the government’s response to the crisis
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Vinit, Mangalore
The UN has appealed for nearly $164m (£102m) to fight a cholera outbreak in Haiti which has now claimed 724 lives.
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Hemant, Varanasi
PORT-AU-PRINCE: The toll in the cholera epidemic in Haiti has risen to 724, authorities said. The disease has infected a total of 11,125 people nationwide, according...
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Zuliya, Washington
It seems uncommonly cruel and unjust that a nation as devastated as Haiti is facing the threat of a cholera epidemic even as it struggles to cope with the aftermath of...
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Sukhbahar, Ludhiana
Health officials say the country’s epidemic is now a matter of `national security’ as the disease has started to spread in the earthquake-battered capital...
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At least 120 people in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, are being tested for cholera, health officials say. Doctors have told the BBC the disease is...
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Oluwatosin, Abuja
All of Nigeria is at risk in a cholera epidemic that has killed 352 people in only three-months time, health officials warned Wednesday, as the country’s rainy...
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Rose Ng'ang'a, Nairobi
It is with deep shock and regret that we have learnt that 24 inmates have died of Cholera at the Kamiti Maximum prison. It is regrettable and unfortunate if such a...
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John, Kampala
Just as always is the case following torrential rains during the onset of the rainy season, diseases like water borne diseases like cholera and typhoid wreck havoc. In...
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Dom, London
More than 100 people have died and over 5,000 have been infected in outbreaks of cholera, influenza and diarrhoea in remote parts of Papua New Guinea since last month,...
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Photo: Food Supplied by WFP in remote Nepal World Food Program (WFP) has threatened to suspend food aid in Nepal refuting the reports that the food distributed under...
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Robb, Derby
Just a yesterday, I had the great joy (not!) of watching Robert Mugabe (I refuse to call him “President”) in a Zimbabwe nationwide television broadcast, tell the...
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A bony limb flops from the wheelbarrow in limp resignation. A head lolls amid the pile of blankets. A woman is trundling her elderly mother home from a clinic to...
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Anindita Chatterjee, Johannesburg
“Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” This situation is particularly pertinent with regards to Zimbabwe as I was listening to the morning news...
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The health of 2.6 billion people in the developing world is in jeopardy! The prime culprit is a lack of toilets. According to a new study, lack of proper sanitation...
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Morgan Tsvangirai, right, leader of the main opposition party in Zimbabwe, hands over a cup of water containing cholera medication to a cholera patient, while visiting the Budiriro Clinic in Harare, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009. The death toll from cholera...