Number of victims of the cholera epidemic in Haiti, close to 2,6 thousand

Number of victims of the cholera epidemic raging in Haiti since October, was close to 2.6 thousand people, said on Wednesday the Haitian Ministry of Health (MSPP).
In a previous report, the Ministry of Health talked about 2.405 thousand dead.
According to the agency, Haiti on December 22, registered 121 000 518 cholera cases. Since the beginning of the epidemic disease killed 2,591 people. According to the agency, the spread of the epidemic for some time to slow down, but now the cholera again gaining momentum.
The report of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, watching the situation in Haiti, says that in some cases, from first symptoms to death is only a few hours. Specialists of the World Health Organization predicts that within the next year the number of cholera in Haiti could reach 400,000 people.
The epidemic started in the northeast of Haiti in mid-October. French Renault Pyaru epidemiologist, arrived in Haiti at the request of the local Ministry of Health, said that the center of the epidemic was in a camp of UN peacekeepers from Nepal. The results of the report coincided with the assumptions of the scientist Haitians who believed Nepalese UN peacekeepers guilty of an outbreak of cholera. A team of American and Haitian scientists confirmed that the epidemic came to the island state from other regions.
Command of the Nepal Army issued a strong condemnation of the report Pyaru, arguing that it is based solely on assumptions. The United Nations last week said it will set up an international commission to determine the source of the disease.
Complicate the situation in the country large-scale riots that took place in early December in major cities. The demonstrators accused the government of rigging the results of the elections on November 28 and demanded to recognize them as invalid. During the demonstrations were killed at least four people.
In addition, the poorest country of the Western Hemisphere have not yet recovered from the effects of one of the most devastating earthquakes, which killed about 230,000 people, nearly 3 million injured, more than 1 million homeless or became refugees. Haiti's economy sustained huge losses - according to preliminary estimates, it amounted to about $ 9 billion.
Cholera - an acute intestinal infection caused by bacteria of the species Vibrio cholerae. Vibrio cholerae lives in dirty water and food. Disease spreads, usually in the form of epidemics, causing a rapid loss of body fluid and dehydration varying degrees, until his death.