Clean Water, Sanitation Ease Cholera in Haiti

Clean water and improved sanitation reduced the rate of cholera in part of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, researchers reported.

But such public health interventions will probably not be enough to eradicate the disease, which broke out in Haiti for the first time in the wake of the 2010 earthquake, according to Claude-Lyne Valcin, MD, of Dartmouth Medical School in Lebanon, N.H., and colleagues.

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