December 13, 2010
Newsweek
How We Can Stop Cholera
By Paul Farmer and Jean-Renold Rejouit
After decades of political violence, after being pounded by hurricanes and floods, and after the January 2010 earthquake, Haiti now faces a cholera epidemic that has so far defied all efforts to bring it under control—efforts made even more difficult by last week’s rioting over disputed election results. In the outbreak’s first 30 days, the disease claimed an estimated 2,000 lives. It started in central Haiti ...
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