As a result, St Marc's hospital has been inundated with cholera cases, obliging other patients to go elsewhere.
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The Manzanillo schoolteacher was hospitalized for a week with cholera and only recently was allowed return home to finish her recovery.
Heavy rain has the potential to worsen sanitation conditions in camps, which, with cholera still so prevalent in Haiti, is a major concern.
The specialists are determining the effect of the outbreak in remote regions and hope to improve case management and emergency preparations in clinics that have not yet dealt with cholera.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwe's worst humanitarian and economic crisis since its independence from Great Britain in 1980 rages on, with a cholera epidemic that has claimed nearly 2, 000 lives since August.
Malnutrition was widespread, and so were diseases associated with poverty: cholera, dysentery, typhoid and parasitic infections such as malaria.
Tents have been set up and packed with cots and IVs for cholera patients.
Cuba's health ministry has confirmed a cholera outbreak in Havana with 51 people infected - the biggest incidence of the disease there in decades.
And it is nearly impossible to contain the cholera, now at epidemic proportions with some 300 to 400 cases diagnosed per week.
Aid agencies Plan International Cameroon and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) fear infectious diseases - in particular cholera and malaria - could spread with the water, as is often the case.
With nearly 1m earthquake victims still displaced, a cholera epidemic and a political vacuum, Haiti faces many pressing tasks.
They estimate 100, 000 children in the area are at risk from "cholera and similar serious diseases" associated with a lack of clean water.
Cuban health officials allowed a CNN crew to be the first media to film in the hospital and speak with doctors there about the ongoing effort to control the cholera outbreak.
The United States must also work with other donors to treat those who are suffering from cholera and invest in water and sanitation programs that will eliminate the conditions in which cholera thrives.
The Centers for Disease Control says five people have died from infection with Vibrio vulnificus, a form of the bacteria that causes cholera.
Potential investors are also being scared off by cholera, even though it can be easily prevented with good sanitation and clean drinking water (or treated by oral rehydration).
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She said they were currently working in "extreme conditions", with recent flooding worsening already poor sanitation, an outbreak of cholera and hepatitis and a rise in malnutrition in children.
The CDC said that five people who survived Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans died after becoming infected with Vibrio vulnificus, caused by a form of the bacteria that also causes cholera.
On Apr. 2 President Bush helped clear the way by signing an order granting health officials the power to quarantine patients with SARS, adding it to a list of killers such as smallpox, cholera and Ebola.
People are sleeping outside with no food and no sanitation, and Costello fears the onslaught of diseases such as malaria, dysentery and cholera.
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