October 11, 2011. Cholera cases increasing in Port-au-Prince
| SOURCE: | Altegrity Risk International |
The number of cholera cases seen in Port-au-Prince jumped about threefold in recent weeks, according to a foreign aid group on October 10th. The group said their four treatment centers in the capital area have handled as many as 850 cases in just one week, compared to 250 cases a week more than a month ago. The rise is largely attributed to the second rainy season of the year, when showers and floods caused the waterborne disease to spread freely in the crowded and unsanitary capital. One cholera treatment center in the densely packed Port-au-Prince area of Martissaint has 90 beds for patients but is almost out of space, the foreign aid group said.
Despite the jump in cases, the weekly number is still far below what foreign aid groups saw in the initial peak last November after the disease surfaced a year ago.
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