Haiti’s Early Rainy Season Causes Increase In Cholera Cases

NPR: Cholera Surges In Haiti As Rain Arrives Early
“…An unusually early start to the rainy season has brought a spike in the waterborne bacteria — and thus the number of infections. In the first four months of this year, the number of reported cholera cases was nearly 400 percent higher than that reported in the same period in 2014…” (Granitz, 5/28).

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