Friday, November 12, 2010

Cholera spreads from person to person

12/11 10:45 CET

The disease in Haiti continues to claim victims. More than 800 deaths recorded since its introduction in mid-October. These last four days, about 150 people died, indicating that the epidemic is exponential.

Here in the slum of Cite Soleil, doctors without borders receive more patients each day, and for good reason: "If you look at it, says Virginia Gauder, who is a nurse, we find that the contamination is people to people. It's not really the water. And certainly, in Port-au-Prince, this is due to the proximity of the population. People living in overcrowded slums. Contamination increases because of that. "

The authorities believe that a vaccine is excluded for the moment, because it is not effective in full epidemic. 10 months after the quake, the nightmare of Haitians is not complete: an earthquake of low magnitude was felt yesterday, causing panic in a school near Port-au-Prince.

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