Hurricane Tomas Heads for Haiti, Cuba

Category Environment | Friday, November 5th, 2010

Hurricane?Tomas reached hurricane strength in the Caribbean early Friday as it headed toward earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
The hurricane’s maximum sustained winds were near 80 mph. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said some additional strengthening is expected.
At 4 a.m. ET, Hurricane Tomas was located about 175 miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and was moving northeast near 9 mph.
The storm was expected to cross over Haiti’s southwestern tip then swirl through the strait that divides Haiti from Cuba.
The storm drenched Haiti on Thursday, threatening fragile, crowded earthquake survivors’ camps in country that is also reeling from a deadly cholera epidemic.
Tomas was expected to bring surging waves, heavy rains and possible flash flooding and mudslides to mountainous Haiti, forecasters said. Torrential rains of up to 10 or 15 inches were expected in some areas.

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Haiti struggles to contain cholera, 138 dead (video)

Category health | Friday, October 22, 2010

Ministry of health Haitian officials informed the World Health Organization 138 deaths are part of an outbreak of cholera fast North of Port - au-Prince, said an official of the United Nations.

Imogen Wall, humanitarian spokesperson in Haiti, said that in addition to the death, 1.526 cases are also part of the epidemic.All cases were reported in the region of lower Artibonite, North of Port - au Prince, she says.

"It's a situation that is very developed rapidement.Il is 48 hours and we already have 138 deaths has confirmed, Wall told CNN."

"I can also tell you that we've just had confirmation from the Ministry of health here is cholera, which is partially a severe cholera is a very dangerous disease development and it spreads very rapidly, but also because it is unusual in Haiti," she says. ""It was not an outbreak here during the decades".

Mr. Michel Thieren PAHO described health outbreak as a "serious" and noted that officials were still trying track how far it was propagated.

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