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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 for front-line response teams is drying up, even as a newly approved vaccine offers a glimmer of hope.
The epidemic has already caused almost half a million cases, half of which have required hospitalization. Haiti's health ministry says that roughly 6,500 people have died from their infections — a figure widely believed to be an underestimate.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in Washington DC expects the epidemic to ease partially, but nonetheless predicts a further 250,000 cases next year, says Peter Graaff, the PAHO/World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Haiti. (...)

The article:
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111019/full/478295a.html

More about:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=us-ngo-proposes-cholera-vaccine

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Dossier Haiti (Videoreportage):

http://silvestromontanaro.com/page/2

http://silvestromontanaro.com/post/2667863705/abbiamo-fallito

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Passato...prossimo:
https://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1990:haiti-nell-isola-del-colera-&catid=126:salute&Itemid=147