http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/news/story/0,28277,2027478,00.html
Published by- Suzanne Zimbler
First published- October 25, 2010
Nine months after a earthquake struck Haiti, more than one million people are still living in camps in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. With so many people living in close areas, people of the government have been very scared a major spread of disease will spread through the contrey. Now, they are fighting to prevent a deadly disease from spreading to the camps that the people are living in rite now. They didn't succeed. Over 3,000 people got the sickens. The sickens is called cholera. It is pronounced kol-er-uh.
Cholera spreads when people drink dirty water. The people think that the river Artibonite was the thing that caused the cholera disease. This is what Jean-Francois St. Felix said
"We know that the disease is affecting the community near the river," says Jean-Francois St. Felix, who works for Haiti's National Department of Water Supply and Sanitation. "We are in the middle of informing people in the region."
Haiti has enough medicine to help over 100,000 people. They have raised that much money to do that and other donations have bean made from other agencies.
"It's not difficult to prevent the spread to Port-au-Prince," said Health Ministry director Gabriel Timothee. "We can prevent it."
This is a good summary Alek. However, what did you think of the article? What is your opinion about that many people getting sick because of dirty water? Be sure to add that to your current events.
ReplyDeleteI feel bad for Haiti because they just started to recover form the earthquakes last year and now another natural disaster hit.
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