The Haiti Cholera Outbreak
This is a graph on the fatalities and cases of the outbreak.
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti, a small country on the island of Hispaniola. In addition to killing many people and causing even more to lose their homes, this earthquake started something even bigger, which began almost nine months later. This something was a huge cholera outbreak. It started because so many people lost their homes after the earthquake. They moved into areas closely together, with bad waste disposal methods and bad hygiene. People were drinking from the same river they emptied their waste in. This made these places a perfect breeding ground for the Vibrio cholerae bacterium. People were dying very quickly, and more and more people were becoming infected. Fortunately, numerous relief organizations quickly rushed to help, giving people special solutions and helping them recover. Despite all this, by November 8, 2011, 6797 deaths had been reported. As of 2012, the outbreak is still raging.