Haiti Cholera Outbreak

Outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apologised to the people of Haiti on Thursday for the world body's role in a deadly cholera outbreak that has killed more than 9,300 people and was blamed on Nepali UN peacekeepers.

Foreign medics with orange stretchers and gallons of chlorine are stemming a cholera outbreak on Haiti's hurricane-struck coast but the focus on a disease UN peacekeepers brought here six years ago is slowing the delivery of food and shelter for storm victims.

A week after being devastated by a hurricane, Haiti faces a growing cholera outbreak that threatens to turn its disaster even more deadly.

Cholera outbreaks have killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, government officials told Reuters on Saturday, voicing concern that the disease was spreading.

Climate change, cholera and the return of thousands of emigrants from the neighboring Dominican Republican are fueling a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, the UN warned Tuesday.

Haiti's cholera epidemic has killed 132 people and may have infected nearly 15,000 others so far this year, a UN agency report said on Wednesday.

The United Nations is asking for $164 million to fight the cholera outbreak in Haiti, which has now claimed 724 lives.A spokeswoman for the UN humanitarian office says unless the funds are provided "all our efforts can be outrun by the epidemic."Elisabeth Byrs told reporters in Geneva that UN and non-governmental organizations would use the money t...

A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts on Saturday hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince.Health officials said at least 208 people had died and 2,674 others were infected in an outbreak mostly centered in the Artibonite re...

At least 142 people have died in a cholera outbreak, and aid groups are rushing in medicine and other supplies on Friday to combat Haiti's deadliest health problem since its devastating earthquake.The outbreak in the rural Artibonite region, which hosts thousands of quake refugees, appeared to confirm relief groups' fears about sanitation for homel...

At least 135 people have died and about 1,000 others are sick from a suspected cholera outbreak in Haiti among earthquake survivors still living in squalid temporary homes.Catherine Huck, deputy country director for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said many people have diarrhea and are vomiting. She said doctors were sti...

Outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apologised to the people of Haiti on Thursday for the world body's role in a deadly cholera outbreak that has killed more than 9,300 people and was blamed on Nepali UN peacekeepers.

Foreign medics with orange stretchers and gallons of chlorine are stemming a cholera outbreak on Haiti's hurricane-struck coast but the focus on a disease UN peacekeepers brought here six years ago is slowing the delivery of food and shelter for storm victims.

A week after being devastated by a hurricane, Haiti faces a growing cholera outbreak that threatens to turn its disaster even more deadly.

Cholera outbreaks have killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, government officials told Reuters on Saturday, voicing concern that the disease was spreading.

Climate change, cholera and the return of thousands of emigrants from the neighboring Dominican Republican are fueling a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, the UN warned Tuesday.

Haiti's cholera epidemic has killed 132 people and may have infected nearly 15,000 others so far this year, a UN agency report said on Wednesday.

The United Nations is asking for $164 million to fight the cholera outbreak in Haiti, which has now claimed 724 lives.A spokeswoman for the UN humanitarian office says unless the funds are provided "all our efforts can be outrun by the epidemic."Elisabeth Byrs told reporters in Geneva that UN and non-governmental organizations would use the money t...

A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts on Saturday hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince.Health officials said at least 208 people had died and 2,674 others were infected in an outbreak mostly centered in the Artibonite re...

At least 142 people have died in a cholera outbreak, and aid groups are rushing in medicine and other supplies on Friday to combat Haiti's deadliest health problem since its devastating earthquake.The outbreak in the rural Artibonite region, which hosts thousands of quake refugees, appeared to confirm relief groups' fears about sanitation for homel...

At least 135 people have died and about 1,000 others are sick from a suspected cholera outbreak in Haiti among earthquake survivors still living in squalid temporary homes.Catherine Huck, deputy country director for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said many people have diarrhea and are vomiting. She said doctors were sti...