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As cholera infections soar in the Dominican Republic, health authorities probed Sunday a possible first fatality from an outbreak that has killed thousands in Haiti. http://phys.org/news212606986.html Medicine & Health Sun, 26 Dec 2010 17:29:59 EST news212606986 Haiti's cholera death toll has jumped by some 210 people, with more than 2,400 now having succumbed to the epidemic, health officials said Wednesday, after days of hope that the outbreak had begun to taper off. http://phys.org/news211660688.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:10:02 EST news211660688 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital, with others from the United States and Haiti, has determined that the strain of cholera erupting in Haiti matches bacterial samples from South Asia and not those from Latin America. The scientists conclude that the cholera bacterial strain introduced into Haiti probably came from an infected human, contaminated food or other item from outside of Latin America. It is highly unlikely, they say, that the outbreak was triggered by ocean currents or other climate-related events. http://phys.org/news211139798.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:56:52 EST news211139798 New clinical strains of cholera appear to have evolved a distinctly different mechanism to cause the same disease according to research published in the current issue of the online journal mBio. http://phys.org/news211122634.html Biology Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:11:33 EST news211122634 Cholera is spreading rapidly throughout Haiti, highlighting the need for urgent efforts to curb the epidemic, a report from the US-based Centers for Disease Control said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news211090661.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:40:01 EST news211090661 (AP) -- A French disease expert says there is strong evidence linking U.N. peacekeepers to a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed more than 2,000 people. http://phys.org/news210955904.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:10:01 EST news210955904 (AP) -- A gray-haired woman, her eyes sunken and unfocused from dehydration, stumbles up a dirt path slumped on the shoulder of a young man, heading to a rural clinic so overcrowded that plastic tarps have been strung up outside to shade dozens who can't fit inside. http://phys.org/news210585395.html Medicine & Health Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:56:41 EST news210585395 At least 1,721 Haitians have died from a worsening cholera epidemic in the earthquake-devastated country, according to new figures released by the health ministry on Monday. http://phys.org/news210254820.html Medicine & Health Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:20:02 EST news210254820 As the cholera epidemic in Haiti continues to rage, public health workers are focusing their efforts on treating the tens of thousands who have already been hospitalized with cholera-like symptoms and providing clean water and adequate sanitation to control the disease's spread. http://phys.org/news209841890.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:25:00 EST news209841890 A top health expert warned on Tuesday that Haiti could face as many as 200,000 cases of cholera in the coming three months and needs urgent supplies to treat an explosion of cases of the deadly disease. http://phys.org/news209749267.html Medicine & Health Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:10:01 EST news209749267 Haitian health officials said Monday that at least 1,344 people have died from a worsening cholera epidemic that has ravaged the country since mid-October. http://phys.org/news209664223.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:03:55 EST news209664223 (AP) -- It began as a rumor that farmers saw waste from a U.N. peacekeeping base flow into a river. Within days of the talk, hundreds downstream had died from cholera. http://phys.org/news209442871.html Medicine & Health Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:34:59 EST news209442871 Health officials in Haiti announced 76 new cholera deaths Wednesday, pushing the toll to 1,100 since the disease first surfaced in the destitute Caribbean nation in late October. http://phys.org/news209214235.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:04:34 EST news209214235 A first case of cholera has been detected in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news209190191.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:40:03 EST news209190191 (AP) -- An outbreak of cholera has killed more than 1,000 people, the Haitian government said Tuesday as it sent top officials to the country's north in hopes of quelling violent protests against U.N. peacekeepers accused of spreading the disease. http://phys.org/news209153951.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:50:36 EST news209153951 (AP) -- Protesters who hold Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers responsible for a deadly outbreak of cholera that has killed 1,000 in three weeks threw stones and threatened to set fire to a base in the country's second-largest city Monday, Haitian radio and eyewitnesses reported. http://phys.org/news209048722.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:20:01 EST news209048722 (AP) -- The United Nations asked for $164 million Friday to fight the cholera outbreak in Haiti that has already claimed 724 lives and is expected to continue spreading for up to a year. http://phys.org/news208777464.html Medicine & Health Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:44:34 EST news208777464 (AP) -- A wooden wheelbarrow is pushed to the high green gates of a slum hospital, carrying an unconscious woman, her lips white and cracked with dehydration. She is 22, and two days ago she was healthy. http://phys.org/news208638322.html Medicine & Health Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:05:41 EST news208638322 (AP) -- Doctors and aid groups are rushing to set up cholera treatment centers across Haiti's capital as officials warn that the disease's encroachment into the overcrowded city will bring a surge in cases. http://phys.org/news208588977.html Medicine & Health Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:10:01 EST news208588977 (AP) -- Health workers feared a surge of cholera cases in the shantytowns and muddy tent camps of Haiti's capital as suspected cases piled up Tuesday and a laboratory confirmed a case originated in the overcrowded city. http://phys.org/news208547596.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:53:32 EST news208547596 (AP) -- The cholera epidemic has spread into Haiti's capital, imperiling nearly 3 million people living in Port-au-Prince, nearly half of them in unsanitary tent camps for the homeless from the Jan. 12 earthquake. http://phys.org/news208497897.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:05:41 EST news208497897 (AP) -- Health officials said Monday that they are examining at least 120 suspected cases of cholera in Haiti's capital, the most significant warning sign yet that the epidemic has spread from outlying areas to threaten as many as 3 million people. http://phys.org/news208455126.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:13:06 EST news208455126 The death toll from Haiti's cholera epidemic has surpassed 500 dead, the Haitian Health Ministry reported on its website Saturday. http://phys.org/news208334321.html Medicine & Health Sun, 07 Nov 2010 06:50:01 EST news208334321 (AP) -- Researchers should determine whether United Nations peacekeepers were the source of a deadly outbreak of cholera in Haiti, two public health experts, including a U.N. official, said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news208027252.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:50:01 EST news208027252 (AP) -- A cholera outbreak that has killed more than 300 people in Haiti matches strains commonly found in South Asia, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. http://phys.org/news207849170.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:53:11 EST news207849170 Haiti's cholera toll rose Thursday above 300, as doctors sought desperately to contain the epidemic as victims overwhelmed the quake-hit nation's crumbling hospitals, spilling into its maternity wards. http://phys.org/news207495233.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:10:02 EST news207495233 (AP) -- U.N. investigators took samples of foul-smelling waste trickling behind a Nepalese peacekeeping base toward an infected river system on Wednesday, following persistent accusations that excrement from the newly arrived unit caused the cholera epidemic that has sickened more than 4,000 people in the earthquake-ravaged nation. http://phys.org/news207452437.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:30:01 EST news207452437 (AP) -- A cholera outbreak showed signs of easing Monday after killing more than 250 people in a sweep through rural Haiti, but experts warned that the earthquake-devastated country's first bout with the disease in decades is far from over. http://phys.org/news207231191.html Medicine & Health Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:13:28 EST news207231191 (AP) -- A cholera outbreak that already has left 250 people dead and more than 3,000 sickened is at the doorstep of an enormous potential breeding ground: the squalid camps in Port-au-Prince where 1.3 million earthquake survivors live. Health authorities and aid workers are scrambling to keep the tragedies from merging and the deaths from multiplying. http://phys.org/news207197198.html Medicine & Health Mon, 25 Oct 2010 03:46:53 EST news207197198 (AP) -- A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts Saturday hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince. http://phys.org/news207107606.html Medicine & Health Sun, 24 Oct 2010 03:10:01 EST news207107606