The Haitian government has estimated the number of deaths to
5,800 victims while many health workers think the total is high,
since this number does not account for those who die unreported
and unknown in isolated areas of the country. Since October, the
bacterial disease spread like wild fire throughout the nation
but dry spring weather soothed the widening. However the rainy
season having recently commenced last month has added many more
victims, with nearly 1,000 new cases reported daily by the
Health Ministry, as reported in the Los Angeles Times. The
disease is spread through contaminated water, since the country
does not have a sanitary water system in effect. In fact, the
country has no central sewage authority or any trace of clean
drinking water not to mention that most Haitians are homeless
due to an earthquake that struck the nation early this year.
Without a sanitary sewage system, or any clean places to excrete
wastes, more and more people contract the illness due to the
uncleanly environment. Ma