Cholera

• When was the haiti earthquake

  2010 Jan
• What is cholera

  A communicable, contagious disease that is spread via water
• What are the causes of a cholera outbreak

  When the bacteria enter a water source and that source is shared. If people live in close proximity and human waste washes into water sources
• How is cholera treated

  Salt solution and antibiotics
• How did the earthquake make Haiti more vulnerable to an outbreak

  Poor sanitation

  dirty water

  homeless shelters
• Where did cholera first break out and when

  September when UN workers set up camp near the meille tributary
• where did the cholera spread to from the UN camp

  October a man who bathed and drank from the latem river