Vibrio cholerae New figures show an estimated 917 have died and 14,000 more infected with cholera in Haiti's present outbreak. However, it is suspected that many deaths in mountainous regions far from hospitals are going unreported. Clinics are rapidly filling up and many deaths are being reported. "The trend is extremely, extremely alarming. We have not reached a peak yet, but it could arrive next week," said the head of mission for Medecins Sans Frontieres , Stefano Zannini. A health official described the situation in Port-Au-Prince as "[growing] more pathetic each day." The official also said that hospitals in the capital are not able to cope with all of the patients. The United Nations has appealed to donor nations for US 164 million in order to import more doctors, medicine, and water purification systems. According to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) "experience from the Peru outbreak in the early 1990s and from other countries in Latin America suggests that we should expect to identify additional cases for many months to several years."
Vibrio cholerae New figures show an estimated 917 have died and 14,000 more in Haiti's present outbreak. However, it is suspected that many deaths in mountainous regions far from hospitals are going unreported. Clinics are rapidly filling up and many deaths are being reported. "The trend is extremely, extremely alarming. We have not reached a peak yet, but it could arrive next week," said the head of mission for , Stefano Zannini. A health official described the situation in as "[growing] more pathetic each day." The official also said that hospitals in the capital are not able to cope with all of the patients. The United Nations has appealed to donor nations for 164 million in order to import more doctors, medicine, and water purification systems. According to the US (CDC) "experience from the Peru outbreak in the early 1990s and from other countries in Latin America suggests that we should expect to identify additional cases for many months to several years."
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Centers for Disease Control