Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Haiti group demands UN pay for cholera outbreak (AP)

FILE - In this March 8, 2011 file photo, a woman suffering cholera symptoms is carried to a local hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.  In January 2012, health workers will fan out in the Central Plateau and the capital, urging people to seek vaccinations and then documenting those who do. The program will inoculate only 1 percent of the population and deplete the world's stock of available cholera vaccine.  Cholera, spread by water and contact with other people who have the disease, has sickened nearly 500,000 and killed more than 6,500, according Haiti's Health Ministry. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)AP - A human rights group said Tuesday it has filed claims with the United Nations seeking damages on behalf of more than 5,000 Haitian cholera victims and their families.



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