The CDC reported that as per the details till December 3, more than 91,770 cases have been reported nationwide and 43,243 patients have been hospitalised. As per the CDC reports, some deaths are happening after just two hours of illness.
Director of Health Systems, Reconstruction Office at the CDC's Centre for Global Health, Mr Jordan Tappero said, "It's everywhere in Haiti. Haiti's neighbour to the east, the Dominican Republic, is reporting cases of cholera in its two largest cities but that the country may cope better than Haiti because it has better access to clean water.”
The report said that the rate of spread of this cholera epidemic, coupled with the lack of safe water and sanitation infrastructure in Haiti, crave for strict and quick preventive measures to reduce cholera transmission and mortality. It is really sad to know that Haiti, rated the poorest country in the hemisphere has to face cholera outbreak at the time when it is trying to regain its state after the massive earthquake in January.
A French epidemiologist Dr. Renaud Piarroux’s report suggests that the cholera epidemic may have originated with United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal, but U. N. and Nepalese officials have repeatedly denied the charge that the cholera originated in the Asian nation.
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