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A chilling video testimony of brackish Red Cross water in Haiti - Cholera confirmed in Haiti capital. For another compelling testimony on Red Cross delivering filthy water to Haiti victims since the earthquake, view also: How did the Red Cross spend $106 Million Dollars in Haiti: (Ezili Dantà ²'s note: Amongst some of the testimonies that's not clearly translated in this most valuable video: a woman standing next to a small child repeating "no, no, no," points to a water drum with a "Red Cross" sign on it and says that even the water they give is not treated. She explains that she drinks it because she has no money to buy good drinkable water but suffers right now from a stomach ache from drinking the Red Cross' polluted water.)
Here's an example of help Haiti could use that is beyond Clinton/CocaCola/Sweatshops/Monsanto hybrid seeds/unregulated gold/copper and other foreign mining, and more foreign toxins that further pollutes Haiti's ground water : Communication, Water purifier, electricity and environmentally conscious, all in one - http://bit.ly/dn0wQn
Listen to Ezili Dantà ² interview on Ban2 Radio, London w/ Griot Chi, Oct. 4, 2010 (26:08) http://bit.ly/dwkriH, Oct. 4, 2010 and see post Haiti: I Can't Stand the Rain on the current situation in Haiti.
Foul Drinking Water killing Haitians?
According to Larsen, cholera is a new disease in Haiti, and became evident on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 in the Northern Departments of the Artibonite area and lower Central Plateau (East), Haiti. Initially it killed 140 Haitians and at least 1500 more were reported infected. Cholera "is very dangerous. It can kill in three hours because once the diarrhea starts it doesn't stop." Although initially no cases had been reported in Port au Prince, Claude Surena, the head of Haiti's Medical Association, told AP that "The concern is that it could go from one place to another place " and affect more people."
Cholera
is caused by drinking dirty toxic water, or eating food cooked in
contaminated water. The surprise is that Haitians not directly affected
by the earthquake, living outside of the capital in areas where there
has always been a shortage of clean drinking water are suddenly getting
sick. Where are the additional toxins coming from? The assumption the
International NGOs, aid agencies and UN are making is that the
Artibonite River is contaminated, making the people living in the
regions where the river crosses sick with cholera. But how did this
river, situated North from the earthquake devastation in Port au Prince
and other areas South become the source of the cholera disease? How did
it move up North to the Artibonite River from the Southern parts of
Haiti? "There is no evidence," suggests Dr. Gabriel Timothee, a Haitian
public health official, that the Artibonite River is the source of the
disease and "examinations are under way to try to determine the source
of the disease." (See, Alterpress - Haà ¯ti-Cholà ©ra : Situation d'urgence humanitaire 9 mois aprà ¨s la catastrophe du 12 janvier ; Une maladie importà ©e, la MINUSTAH clame son innocence; MINUSTAH denies rumour that it spread cholera in Haiti; and, Maeva Bambuck, a France 24 (English) reporter in
Haiti, also reports there is a strong suspicion the cholera outbreak
originated from the Nepalese UN soldiers who may be infected carriers of cholera
and are stationed on the banks of the Meille river that feeds into Artibonite region of the outbreak.)
Haiti news outlets report President Rene Preval also maintains that the strain of Vibrio cholerae is imported, and that cholera has never been present before in the country.
Carte d'Haà ¯ti situant les dà ©partements touchà ©s par le cholà ©ra
The suffering for Haitians deepen. The questions mount. Why are people in the Artibonite and Central areas suddenly suffering in great numbers from drinking brackish water that's been that way for centuries, and not killed them? What's the new element contaminating the Artibonite River that hasn't been in Haiti for a century? Could the unregulated gold, copper, iridium and other toxic mining operations up North of the Artibonite River, by Western companies benefiting from the 2004 Bush Regime change and UN occupation, be the new element polluting Haiti's water table? (See, Haiti's Riches:Interview with Ezili Dantà ² on Mining in Haiti). Or, was the cholera bacteria simply deliberately put into Haiti by the same mindset that just made it necessary for President Obama to apologize to the Guatemalans for the US medical and government establishments which deliberately infected Guatemalans with STDs?
Speaking of brackish water, if it's proven that the Artibonite River is
infected and that this most likely comes from an infected Haitian
person from the earthquake refugee camps, who travelled North, then any
scientific analysis of this cholera situation must also take into
account that the displaced people in the camps of Port au Prince have been complaining since two months after the earthquake that the Red Cross water they've been given to drink, for instance, gives them stomach aches.
No
one knows for sure yet how cholera got to Haiti. But it's in Haiti now
and either foul drinking water or food that's been soaked or cooked in
contaminated water is killing a new crop of Haitians, giving them
cholera while donations that could have provided permanent clean
drinking water are collecting interests for the thousands of charity
organizations making a business out of poverty and the earthquake in
Haiti.
AP, BBC, the New
York Times and other mainstream news parrot each other, not emphasizing
that cholera has never before been found in Haiti. The racist
assumption is Haitians are always diseased and the invasion of
international charity workers and UN soldiers are all healthy from
countries with no cholera diseases , so these news agencies so far only deign to write that cholera has not been found in Haiti for "centuries." But at least one news
report does firmly explain this is the first time that cholera has been
found in Haiti and this cholera epidemic most likely was imported to Haiti by a healthy carrier after the earthquake.
A week after the initial reports of the Haiti cholera epidemic, other cases of diarrhea in the West, particularly the island of Gonave, the Acahaie, Carrefour (southern suburbs) and within the capital Port-au-Prince were being reported. The deathtoll had risen to 284 and those infected to 3, 612 and was steadily climbing. (See, Haiti reports 25 new cholera deaths.)
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