PUERTO PRINCIPE (AP) – Haiti has seen an increase in the number of cases of cholera with the onset of the rainy season, it was reported on Tuesday the UN.
The Office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations said in a bulletin that detected new cases of cholera in Western Haiti.
At the beginning of March, when they start the night rains, health officials 77 new cases reported daily throughout the country.
New cases emerge after submitting a steady decline. During the rainy season from last year, organizations of humanitarian aid workers arrived to register more than 1,000 cases within a few days.
Health officials say the disease has killed more than 7,000 people and ill to other 530.000 since it was introduced presumably by a unit of UN troops after the earthquake of 2010.
