Cholera is a intestinal infection. You can get it when you injest water or food that is contaminated.
After Tomas ripped through Haiti a terrible illness could be on the rise. Flood waters from Tomas are causing trouble. With flood waters bring illness into the poor country Haiti.
The illness that is on the rise is Cholera.
So far the death toll from this disease is 544 people. Officials are saying there are 8,000 confirmed case, and possibly be a lot more.This rising crisis comes after a huge earthquake shook Haiti ten months ago. As of now we know of one major person being really sick. A three year old boy was the first known case of cholera in Haiti. People are having to compete with animals through the water. Apparently Port-au-Prince smells like a dump Tomas killed 20 people in Haiti, but the disease cholera killed more. An amazing amount of people are left homeless after Tomas. Nearly 6,000 people to be exact.
I think this is terrible for Haiti. They've been through a magnitude 7 earthquake and now a Hurricane. Nothing is going right for this country. They need help and they need it now! Hopefully sometime in the future they will thrive and be one of the richest countries in the world but the way it's going now. It doesn't look like it's going to happen for a long, long time
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