2010 Haiti cholera outbreak
| Date | October 2010-present |
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| Location | United Nations camp Artibonite Valley, Haiti |
| Cause |
Infected United Nations troops.
 Mexico 1 dead (18 Oct 2013) |
| 9,700 dead (all countries) | |
| 434,029 hospitalised (Haiti) | |
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Cases: Cases recorded in:
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Infected United Nations troops.
Haiti 9,200+ dead (4 Mar 2015)
Dominican Republic 472 dead (Nov 2014)
Cuba 3 dead (Jun 2012)
Cases:
754,735 (Haiti),
31,681 (DR),
678 (Cuba),
190 (Mexico)
Cases recorded in:
The ongoing Haiti cholera outbreak is the worst epidemic of cholera in recent history, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After the 2010 earthquake, in little over two years, as of April 2013, it has killed at least 7,000 Haitians and sickened a few hundred thousand more while spreading to neighboring countries including the Dominican Republic and Cuba. Since the outbreak began in October 2010, more than 6% of Haitians have had the disease. While there had been an apparent lull in cases in 2014, by August 2015, after the rainy season that year brought a spike in cases, more than 700,000 Haitians had become ill with cholera and the death toll had climbed to 9,000.
The outbreak began in mid October 2010 in the rural Center department of Haiti, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of the capital, Port-au-Prince, killing 4672 people by March 2011 and hospitalising thousands more. The outbreak occurred ten months after a powerful earthquake which devastated the nation's capital and southern towns on 12 January 2010. It is widely believed to have been introduced by Nepalese peacekeepers from the UN. By the first 10 weeks of the epidemic, cholera spread to all of Haiti's 10 departments or provinces.
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