Haitian Cholera Epidemic UPDATE

Children are among the most vulnerable in contracting the disease.

With a top US Cholera specialist having confirmed the source of the disease coming from U.N soldiers at the the Haitian-Nepalese U.N base, the U.N is in some serious hot water. Cholera was a disease that had not been present in Haiti since over a hundred years, but since the start of its recent outbreak it has killed almost 8000 people

There is now two sides to this Cholera battle that are in motion. U.N lawyers are facing piles of lawsuits from both Haitian victims and there families for compensation as well as the Haitian government. The claim from the victims alone totals a couple billion dollars.

One the other side of the fight, doctors and medics are scrambling in overcrowded hospitals and medic tents where they have patients spread out on the floors because of the lack of beds. The Dominican Republic is working together with the Haiti government to treat victims. Some 400 people have died in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic deputy minister of public health has set an estimate of a 10-year fight to conquer the disease.

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