Dr. John Carroll works in Cité Soleil and blogs at Dying in Haiti. Here's a post from October 28: Cholera and the Capital. Excerpt:
This week we have seen thousands of kids in the clinic and the hospital in Cite Soleil.
I have not checked one child who had a history consistent with cholera.
There are no confirmed cases of pediatric cholera in Saint Catherine's Hospital in Soleil either. We admit our sickest kids to this hospital which lies across a field from the pediatric clinic.
However, the kids seems sicker than usual. Lots of malnutrition, diarrhea, fever, colds.
And we have about 5 documented cases of malaria each week at the clinic in the back of Soleil.
Port-au-Prince and its slums do not need a cholera epidemic. I can't hardly think of a worse nightmare. Haiti is beyond fragile at this point and the people are suffering more than I have ever seen.
I'm putting this site in the Bloggers list.
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