Tag: cholera outbreak

Syria reports 39 dead in cholera outbreak

DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) – Syria’s health ministry has recorded 39 deaths from cholera and nearly 600 cases in an outbreak spreading in the war-ravaged country that the United Nations warned is “evolving alarmingly”. A total of 594 cases have been recorded across 11 of its 14 provinces since late last month, the health ministry said late Tuesday. “The situation is evolving alarmingly in affected governorates and expanding to new areas,” the World Health Organization warned […]

After hurricane, Haiti confronts cholera outbreak

by Marc BURLEIGH PORT-SALUT, Haiti (AFP) — A week after being devastated by a hurricane, Haiti faces a growing cholera outbreak that threatens to turn its disaster even more deadly. In Port Salut, a smashed-up town on Haiti’s southern peninsula that was among those that bore the brunt of Hurricane Matthew — the Caribbean’s most powerful storm in a nearly decade — fears are rising. The town’s sole hospital on Sunday recorded its first death […]