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Haiti Gets $35.5M Grant to Improve Water Services
sanitation system is severely lacking. The country's tattered infrastructure has helped spread the waterborne disease of cholera , which officials say has killed thousands. The bank made the announcement Monday.
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7 Foods Most Likely to Make You Sicksafety concerns. One common reason, said Coffman, is vibrio contamination, a pathogen related to the bacteria that cause cholera . Vibrio is found in higher concentrations when water gets warmer, so outbreaks are more common in the summer months
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When Your Identity Is Tossed Out the Window... Literallyafter all, identity theft, like the radiation at Chernobyl or the germs that cause cholera , is invisible, and thus easy for non-victims to ignore. Like cholera , radiation poisoning, and a host of other ills, identity theft is all too real
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The Latin American Literary Boom: Real or Hype?a decade in which García Márquez received the Nobel prize and published his last great novel, Love in the Time of Cholera . Even though most of their writers would never publish another masterpiece, no identifiable generation had taken the relay
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Argentina Wants 16-year-olds to Vote and Other Top News from Latin AmericaHaiti, 54 were killed when heavy rains caused rivers to overflow and flood surrounding areas. Al Jazeera reports that cholera cases are on the rise and food security in the country is at risk. In Cuba, homes and crops were destroyed throughout
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Hurricane Sandy's Death Toll Reaches 69 in Caribbean Countriestelephones, CNN reported . Flooding may also pose serious health risk in region. Over the summer, flooded wells lead to a cholera outbreak in the Granma province of the country. The storm hit also hit the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic
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WATCH: ABC News Reports on the "Hidden America"
families often live without electricity and running water, which leads to higher rates of diseases like tuberculosis, cholera and hepatitis. Despite a daily struggle for survival, the children of more than 2000 communities known as Las Colonias
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EXCLUSIVE: ABC News Reports "Inside the Hot Zone: The Ebola Outbreak"
this morning on "Good Morning America." "I've been in buildings in which anthrax has been released; I've tracked cholera across South America. I don't think I've been in an setting that felt more unsettling than the Ebola ward," Besser
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Inside the Ebola Ward: On the Front Lines in Ugandagoggles, face mask, and two pairs of gloves. I've been in buildings in which anthrax has been released; I've tracked cholera across South America. I don't think I've been in an setting that felt more unsettling than the ebola ward. I'm
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Fish Pedicures: Bacteria in Your Foot Soakthose fish carried strains of several bacteria that could cause soft tissue infections, including Vibrio vulnificus, Vibrio cholerae and S. agalactiae. The strains were resistant to many important antimicrobial medications, including tetracyclines
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Hidden America: 'Forgotten Ones' Struggle to Survive in Texas' Barren 'Colonias'residents get sick, they simply tough it out, even when afflicted rare diseases seen here, including tuberculosis and even cholera . PHOTOS: Life in Las Colonias Another colonias resident, 8-year-old Evelyn, said she often doesn't get enough
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ABC News Launches "Hidden America" - A Special Long-Terms, Cross Platform Series
families often live without electricity and running water, which leads to higher rates of diseases like tuberculosis, cholera and hepatitis. Despite a daily struggle for survival, the children of more than 2000 communities known as Las Colonias
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Bill Clinton, UN Envoy, Admits Peacekeepers as Source of Haiti Cholerain the deadly outbreak of cholera in quake-ravaged Haiti the person who introduced cholera in Haiti, the U.N. peacekeeper was the proximate cause of cholera . That is, he was carrying READ: UN Peacekeepers Caused Cholera Epidemic in Haiti, Report Says Leading
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Michael Pritchard on Eliminating Cholera in Haiti's WaterWe have. On a costly. But it. Last year's was cholera epidemic right. A lot of people in its region. When do and it could he who have been moving here that we're having a real difficulty
have. On a -- costly. But it. -- Last year's -- was cholera epidemic right. A lot of people -- in its region. When do and it could he who have been moving here that we're -
Reinventing The Wheelmaintain basic level house. This enables people to gain access to reliable sources of safe water. And He with a cholera epidemic being so widespread. So it's a safe water becoming more and more scarce. Well as mission is to deliver clean
gain access to reliable sources of safe water. And He with a cholera epidemic being so widespread. So it's a safe water becoming more and more scarce. Well as mission is to deliver clean water to -
Father, Daughter Rescued After Plane Crashes into Caribbean Sea Near Bahamasplane. We'd still filling its giant NASA designed parachute a doctor was on his way to Haiti to help with the cholera epidemic their mechanical failure cut the trip short. Coast Guard lieutenant Thompson and on happened to be on a cargo mission
I mean we slammed forward. -- headed the dashboard. This hair raising video shows 25 year old -- McLaughlin and her father Richard in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Being rescued from this single engine plane. We'd still filling its giant NASA designed parachute a doctor -- -- was on his way to Haiti to help with the cholera epidemic their mechanical failure cut the trip short. Coast Guard lieutenant Thompson and -- on happened to be on a cargo mission nearby -
The Challenges Facing Zimbabwe's PMdollar note equivalent to only a few US cents. Lack of water sanitation and health services has funded devastating cholera epidemic . More than 3100 people have died from the preventable and curable disease at least 61000 people are infected and
US cents. Lack of water sanitation and health services has funded devastating cholera epidemic . More than 3100 people have died from the preventable and curable disease at least 61000 people are infected and health officials expect -
Tropical Storm Eyes HaitiTropical storm Tomas is expected to slam ashore tomorrow more than a million homeless earthquake survivors facing a cholera epidemic are scrambling for shelter. Matt Gutman is there Matt good morning you what are they doing to prepare. Good morning
slam ashore tomorrow more than a million homeless earthquake survivors facing a cholera epidemic are scrambling for shelter. Matt Gutman is there Matt good morning -- you what are they doing to prepare. Good morning -- -
The Conversation: Haiti Progress Reportand rate of about 2% that means. Thousands of dead from cholera outbreak had already that more hospitals clinics are inundated earthquake it's been opened up again. Now victims of the cholera epidemic of being put in here I'm curious you mentioned the elections
-- rate of about 2% that means. Thousands of dead from -- cholera outbreak had already that more hospitals clinics are inundated -- M Senecal volume. Yesterday David we try to find one of the -- secretly buried -- And it turns out that they're burying the color yet the -- spot that they buried deep earthquake victims. This had been a mass grave dug for the victims of January's earthquake it's been opened up again. Now victims of the cholera epidemic of being put in here I'm curious you mentioned the elections they become this weekend. And you combine that with this outbreak -
Medical Recovery in Haitisituations unsafe. Again a big cost for the cholera outbreak. And you know will without And doctor help a little bit about the cholera outbreak what is the current situation very first thing we need if we don't cholera epidemic is sanitation and clean water well were
you'd say well the very first thing we need if we don't cholera epidemic is -- -- sanitation and -- clean water well were actively doing that. We're through -- through the through the efforts and
