Global & Disaster Medicine

Haiti: More than 200 cases of cholera have been reported since Hurricane Matthew struck on 4 October.

October 14th, 2016

BBC

  • The WHO is sending a million doses of cholera vaccine to Haiti
  • A race is on to curb new outbreaks before the imminent rainy season makes toilets overflow, helping cholera to spread.
  • The WHO wants to give Haitians an oral vaccine
  • Usually, patients get a double dose of the vaccine. But in this case a single dose may be used to cover twice as many people – a million instead of 500,000.

 

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