cholera

(CNN) -- At least 20 people have died due to torrential downpours in Haiti, authorities said Tuesday, and aid agencies are scrambling to respond to a resurgence of cholera triggered by the heavy rain. The rainfall has forced residents to evacuate from homes and tent cities, and created a...

NEW YORK – New York City officials have confirmed that three New Yorkers contracted cholera while in the Dominican Republic for a wedding. The Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, where thousands have died from the disease. A medical epidemiologist for the city...

A Montreal hospital says it recently treated a woman for cholera after she spent time in Haiti. Lucie Dufresne, a spokeswoman for University of Montreal Hospital Centre (CHUM), says the woman checked in on New Year's Day and was allowed to return home two days later. Dufresne said lab tests...

A lack of access to drinking water and difficulties distributing medical supplies have added to the problems in Haiti. - In the 10 weeks since an epidemic erupted in Haiti, cholera has killed more than 3,000 people -- partly because the distribution of health supplies remains a logistical...

Farmers are reluctant to step into rice paddies, which are fed by water that could be tainted with bacteria that cause cholera. Cholera has already killed almost 3,000 Haitians. Now it is threatening to cause misery in another vital way. A chunk of Haiti's rice harvest will probably be lost...

Port Au Prince, Haiti -- At least 45 people, most of them voodoo priests, have been lynched in Haiti since the beginning of the cholera epidemic by angry mobs blaming them for the spread of the disease, officials said. "People who practice voodoo have nothing to do with the cholera epidemic,"...

The cholera epidemic in Haiti continues to spread, particularly in the rural areas in the north, which has public health advocates calling for more to to be done to try to stem the spread of disease. In a commentary published Friday in the journal The Lancet, Dr. Paul Farmer, a co-founder of...

Coffin-makers line the streets of Cap-Haitien, going about their grim business. In the midst of an ongoing cholera outbreak, their occupation is one of the fastest-growing in Haiti. JOHNNYCOLT interviewed a coffin maker in Cap Haitien last week as he saw so many building coffins for the...

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti -- Like cholera itself, Haiti's protests against the United Nations spread Thursday to the capital, Port-au-Prince, as angry people took to the streets demanding the global body get out of their country. Similar demonstrations erupted earlier this week in the northern...

Rioters control Haiti's second largest city. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/11/17/watson.haiti.street.violence.cnn http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/11/16/watson.haiti.cholera.riots.cnn Cap Haitien, Haiti (CNN) -- Aid agencies are calling for an end to violence in northern...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/11/14/bpr.watson.haiti.cnn Port-au-Prince, Haiti -- The death toll from Haiti's month-old cholera outbreak continues to grow. According to statistics released by the Haitian Ministry of Health Sunday morning, 917 people have died from the bacterial...

Three brothers recuperated Thursday afternoon in a once-open field now speckled by the bright blue tarps of a cholera rehydration clinic in the Haitian town of Bercy, where an outbreak has sickened hundreds of people. A cousin brought the young boys to the clinic, set up by Samaritan's Purse...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/10/26/newton.haiti.dangerous.waters.cnn http://cnn.com/video/?/video/health/2010/10/28/nr.gupta.haiti.cholera.outbreak.cnn The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Haiti has risen to more than 330, and officials believe Hurricane Tomas may worsen the...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/10/26/newton.haiti.cholera.cnn The death toll from Haiti's cholera outbreak has risen to 292, the Haitian government said Wednesday. There are 4,147 confirmed cases. Crucial to curbing the crisis are education, more primary care centers and a network of...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/10/25/ac.sean.penn.haiti.cnn Port-Au-Prince, Haiti -- Calling Haiti's cholera outbreak "an extremely serious situation," a United Nations official expressed concern Monday that the infectious disease that has already killed more than 250 people could...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/10/24/cholera.haiti.outbreak.cnn Saint-Marc, Haiti -- Patients arrive at the front gates of St. Nicholas Hospital hunched over and groaning, only to be greeted by chaos and confusion. Getting inside isn't easy, but once in, aid organizations and local...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/10/23/wr.namdar.cholera.upate.cnn Port-Au-Prince, Haiti -- The confirmation of five cholera cases in Haiti's capital is a "very worrying development," a U.N. spokeswoman told CNN. Public health officials are working to keep the country's cholera outbreak...

Haitian Health Ministry officials have informed the World Health Organization that 138 deaths are a part of a fast-moving cholera outbreak north of Port-au-Prince, a U.N. official said. Imogen Wall, the U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman in Haiti, said that in addition to the deaths, 1,526 cases are...