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The 2010s Haiti cholera outbreak was the first modern large-scale outbreak of cholera —a disease once considered beaten back largely due to the invention of modern sanitation. The disease was reintroduced to Haiti in October 2010, not long after the disastrous earthquake earlier that year, and since then cholera has spread across the country ...
- October 2010 – February 2019
- Suspected contamination by United Nations peacekeepers.
- Haiti
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Cholera was first reported in Haiti in October 2010. Nationally, a total of 820 000 cases of cholera including 9792 deaths were reported between October 2010 and February 2019. The last confirmed case in this outbreak was reported in January 2019 in I’Estère in the Artibonite department of Haiti. The country did not report a single case of ...
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Jan 12, 2023 · The first cholera outbreak in Haiti was reported in October 2010, 10 months after the catastrophic earthquake that killed >200,000 persons and displaced >1 million. The 2010 outbreak resulted in >820,000 cases and approximately 10,000 deaths ( 1, 2 ). Nearly 12 years after the outbreak began, Haiti was declared cholera-free on February 4, 2022 ...
Oct 12, 2022 · Of the total reported cases, 55% are males and 49% are aged 19 years or younger. The most affected age group is 1 to 4-year-olds (Figure 3). The first cholera outbreak was reported in Haiti in October 2010. Nationally, a total of 820 000 cases of cholera including 9792 deaths were reported between October 2010 and February 2019 (Figure 4).
Nov 30, 2022 · On October 1, 2022, the Haitian Ministry of Health reported a resurgence of cholera in Port-au-Prince. This comes a decade after Haiti had one of the worst cholera epidemics in modern history in ...
Jan 25, 2023 · CDC is supporting Haiti’s ongoing cholera surveillance efforts. On October 20, 2010, the first outbreak of cholera ever confirmed in Haiti was recognized 10 months after the catastrophic earthquake that killed over 200,000 people and displaced over 1 million. At the time, this cholera outbreak was the worst in history, with over 820,000 cases ...
Jan 6, 2011 · The outbreak of cholera that began in Haiti in late October 2010 illustrates the continued public health threat of this ancient scourge. 1 Cholera, an acutely dehydrating diarrheal disease that ...
