International News: UNICEF study says kids make up 40% of Haiti’s cholera cases

Published by BBNTEAM at November 24, 2022

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Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2022. 1:39 pm CST.

By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: A study by the United Nation’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) shows that children make up 40% of the cholera cases in Haiti, Reuters report.

In addition, the UN agency said that young people suffering from severe malnutrition ran 3 times the risk of dying from the bacterial disease.

Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas and has suffered a humanitarian and economic crisis.

“I was shocked to see many children at risk of dying in the cholera treatment centers,” UNICEF emergency programme director Manuel Fontaine said in a statement following a visit to Haiti.

Cholera is usually spread through contaminated water and causes diarrhea and vomiting.

In a 2010 outbreak, over 10,000 people died.

Data from the Pan-American Health Organization was that 216 people died from the disease, there were 961 confirmed cases and a further 12,016 suspected ones, mainly around the capital Port-au-Prince.

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