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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Apr 23, 2015
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• Category : Haiti News
• Description : Health | Fri Apr 17, 2015 7:27pm EDT
  PORT-AU-PRINCE | BY PETER GRANITZ
  
  Photo: A girl crosses a puddle of water after heavy rains at a makeshift tent camp in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince in this file photo taken on February 26, 2010. REUTERS/CARLOS BARRIA
• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
• Website : http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/17/us-haiti-cholera-idUSKBN0N82O220150417

Overview

• (Reuters) - Haitian officials are reporting a spike in cholera cases late last year and carrying over into the first three months of 2015 as an early start to the rainy season has public health workers worried.
  
  As of March 28, the Haitian Ministry of Health confirmed at least 11,721 cases of cholera, more than a 300 percent increase from the same period last year.
  
  “Last May there were hardly any cholera cases. Everybody was very excited, thinking this is the first step toward elimination,” said Oliver Schulz, head of the Haiti office of Doctors Without Borders.
  
  “But then the second peak in November/October was so much stronger than anything we’ve seen in the years before.”
  
  Haiti has two rainy seasons that tend to generate spikes in the waterborne bacterial disease; between April and June, and another, which coincides with hurricane season, from late summer until November.
  
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