USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is launching new efforts to help prevent the introduction and spread of African swine fever in the U.S. Through an
The Chief Veterinary Officer in Haiti on Sept. 20 reported a positive case of African swine fever (ASF) to the World Organisation for Animal Health. The sample was collected from
United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal likely did bring cholera into Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake last year, according to a new study published this week in mBio,
In the search for the cause of Haiti’s recent cholera outbreak, which has claimed more than 4,500 lives and sickened 300,000 people, the finger of blame cannot
The rice harvest in northwestern Haiti is likely to suffer over widespread fear among farmers about cholera contamination, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization announced this week.
Haiti’s
Speculation that United Nation Nepalese peacekeepers brought Cholera to earthquake-ravaged Haiti gained some legitimacy this week. French epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux conducted an evaluation of the outbreak and concluded that the
The cholera epidemic in Haiti is spreading faster than public health agencies originally estimated, the senior United Nations official said on Tuesday.
In a few short weeks since the outbreak
A woman who recently returned to Florida from Haiti has a laboratory-confirmed case of cholera, Florida Department of Health (FDOH) officials announced Thursday.
“We are working with our health care
In 2001, Bob Dell left his career as a water treatment scientist to volunteer for children affected by AIDS in Africa. But when he followed a group of Ugandan children
Cholera has reached Port-au-Prince, the Haitian health ministry reported Tuesday.
The first confirmed case of Cholera in the country’s capital city was a 3-year-old boy who the ministry said
A Cholera outbreak continues to spread in earthquak-ravaged Haiti. Late last week, the Pan American Health Organization announced that the death toll in the outbreak has risen from 442 three
Public health authorities are furiously working to contain and understand the origins of a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed more than 300 people and hospitalized almost 5,000.
