Cholera

Earthquake in Haiti, 2010

Haiti, or the Republic of Haiti, is a Carribean country that occupies the Western portion of the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. It is a small country that is home to 6.97 million people as of 2001, with a tropical climate and a 45% literacy rate.- Haiti is one of the poorerst countries in the world, landing itself as the number one poorest country in the Western Hempisphere and the second most densely populated-. Food insecurity and hunger are some of the most prevalent and consistent issues in Haiti, as well as sanitation, and of course, its susceptibility to various natural disasters.- In other words, Haiti is the perfect breeding groud for infectious diseases.  On Tuesday, January 12th 2010, disaster struck. An earthquake of a 7.0 magnitude hit Haiti, specifically in the town of Léogane, appoximately sixteen miles west of the Haiti capital, Port-au-Prince. Ten days later, 53 afterschocks measuring 4.5 or greater were recorded, and an estimated three million people were affected; that is almost half of the entire population. In addition to being affected, the Haitian government reported that an estimated 316,00 people had died, 300,000 had been injured, and 1,000,000 made homeless by the collapse of poorly built infrastructure.-  On October 19th 2010, ten months after the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Hatian Ministry of Public Heath and Population (MSPP), was notified of a sudden increase in patients with watery diarrhea and dehydration. The disease that caused these symptoms is called Cholera.

__**//Citations//**__ http://www.mapsofworld.com/country-profile/haiti.html http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/web/guest/country/home/tags/haiti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake

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