No end in sight to Haiti's cholera epidemic

Almost a year after a nationwide outbreak, the spread of the waterborne disease cholera is showing no signs of ending in Haiti.

So far, more than 6,000 have died and about 400,000 have been infected, with people often relying on rivers as their main source of water for drinking, bathing and washing.

Epidemiologists say the number of infections has spiked recently in many provinces.

With the hurricane season on the way, aid workers on the Caribbean island are calling for more donations to prevent it from spreading further.

Al Jazeera's Craig Mauro reports from Port-au-Prince.

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[lilbonbon213]

@lilbonbon213

What makes it true because you say so? Tell me.

[lilbonbon213]

@lilbonbon213

I think it's because your hateful and majority of people don't think the way you do so you're alone. Good luck.

[JuStGrEaTfUl]

@lilbonbon213 Because its true .

[lilbonbon213]

@JuStGrEaTfUl

How could you say such a thing?

[nadoop]

@JDubs878 Haitians have been 'pissing and shitting' as you call, it in the rivers for centuries, you shit for brains. The cholera strain was traced to SOUTH ASIA by NUMEROUS sources.Do yourself a favor and google "study un haiti cholera," and you'll see several links regarding the NUMEROUS studies, you dumb, ignorant, numbnut. The first step to exercising critical thinking is learning to formulate opinions based on FACTS and EVIDENCE, not ignorance and propaganda fed to you by your handlers.

[nadoop]

@JDubs878 *Sigh* It is the science community that implicated the UN in the spreading of cholera in Haiti. I did not simply pull this information out of my ass. LOL @ help. Nations don't have friends, only interests. The charity industrial complex is just that. Haiti needs liberation from neoimperialism, but you wouldn't understand, as you've already made up your mind to remain willfully ignorant.

[supermike2164]

@JDubs878 no it doesn't get the white people out and let the Hatians fix their own country with FRIENDLY countries that won't sabotage and undermine.

[JDubs878]

@supermike2164

So Haitians pissing, shitting and washing in the water they drink has NOTHING to do with it? Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME? Look in the video where some Haitians are WASHING THEIR TRUCK IN THE RIVER! Come the FUCK ON! >_>

[JDubs878]

@nadoop

Wow the blame game just never ends does it? Because all those Haitians shitting, pissing and washing in the river doesn't spread disease I guess huh? >_>

You know what? I wish the world would leave Haiti completely since they seem to resent the very people who are trying to help them. Leave the Haitians to deal with their problems themselves so they have no one else to blame when they become violent and turn their shithole nation into flaming ruins and die by the thousands.

[supermike2164]

maybe if you get those white people out of there nobody would be spreading this germ every time it gets cleaned up