PORT-AU-PRINCE: A new cholera infection has been detected in Haiti, authorities announced on Sunday, over three years after the epidemic which killed 10,000 people in the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE: A new cholera infection has been detected in Haiti, authorities announced on Sunday, over three years after the epidemic which killed 10,000 people in the impoverished Caribbean nation ended.A confirmed case was detected in central Port-Au-Prince, while there are multiple suspected cases in the capital's Cite Soleil neighborhood, Haiti's health ministry said in a statement.
The first viral infections were detected around the Artibonite River, where UN peacekeepers had dumped fecal matter, before spreading throughout the country.It was not until August 2016 that the UN officially recognized its role in the epidemic's start.The last positive case before Sunday was detected in 2019, and in February 2022 the Ministry of Public Health held a ceremony to mark the official elimination of cholera in the country.
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