{"id":5732,"date":"2010-11-19T12:10:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T11:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=5732"},"modified":"2010-11-22T15:57:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T14:57:50","slug":"sarah-jacobs-on-cholera-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2010\/11\/19\/sarah-jacobs-on-cholera-in-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Jacobs on cholera in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/site\/blog\/icons\/sarah_jacobs.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Jacobs\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/>I\u2019ve never thought that much about water. I\u2019m vaguely aware I should drink more of it. But that\u2019s about it. Like most people who have the luxury, I take it entirely for granted.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.uk\/en\/haiti-earthquake.htm\">Haiti <\/a>everybody is thinking about water. All the time. Water here has suddenly started killing people. And it\u2019s everywhere. Bucketing down in evening storms, lying in wait in puddles and dripping from broken taps.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSo far this life-sustaining liquid \u2013 contaminated by the lethal cholera bacteria \u2013 has killed more than 800 people and left 12,000 sick according to the UN. And those are just the official statistics. Hundreds more people who may have lived too far away from medical help or didn\u2019t know that this particular bout of vomiting and diarrhoea could kill them within hours if they didn\u2019t get treatment\u00a0could also be dead. And the numbers continue to rise.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully post-earthquake Haiti is a country packed with aid workers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.uk\/\">Save the Children<\/a> alone has more than 800 staff on the ground. Until last week, the skills and energy of thousands of doctors, nurses, and technical experts had prevented any major disease outbreak \u2013 an achievement given there are still more than 1.3 million people living in temporary camps where conditions are, at best, difficult, and, at worst, squalid.<\/p>\n<p>But now there\u2019s cholera \u2013 the most fast-spreading, virulent, and invisible of all water-born diseases. The outbreak can\u2019t be described as a failing on behalf of the aid community \u2013 the first cases appeared in a rural area that wasn\u2019t affected by the quake itself and was away from the concentration of aid work. But it\u2019s a massive extra challenge added to a humanitarian crisis that was already overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>The terrifying reality is that however well aid agencies, the UN, and the Haitian government work to manage to isolate and contain the identified cases, it\u2019s a real possibility that cholera will find its way to the stagnant pools and rubbish-strewn camps of Haiti\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Port au Prince is a prime cholera breeding ground. And children are the most vulnerable. In the last few days in the camps I\u2019ve seen small children crouching by murky rivulets of water to rinse their hands. I\u2019ve been chatting to mums as their babies reach for my hair, my necklace, my pencil, and try to drag them into their mouths.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a huge prevention job to be done here, to teach parents how to protect themselves and their children from infection. As Dr Joseph, the Save the Children doctor in charge of the cholera response in Leogane (the earthquake epicenter) says, \u201cthe outbreak of cholera, for aid workers, is a declaration of \u2018war.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the fight is underway. Our teams are out in the communities working with thousands of people spreading the message of clean water; teaching families how to wash their hands properly with soap, to eat only well-cooked vegetables, explaining to young mums how feeding only breast milk to babies will help protect them from infection. We\u2019re stocking our clinics with more drugs and supporting cholera treatment centres where new cases can be treated away from the rest of the community.<\/p>\n<p>The hope is that none of these extra supplies will be needed. But it only takes one person carrying the bacteria to reach the stagnant pools of Port au Prince; one storm to flood the camps with the disease. A country where water itself has become the enemy is a frightening place to be.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sarah Jacobs<\/strong> is the\u00a0head of news at Save the Children<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Save the Children is the BMJ&#8217;s 2010 Christmas charity. In this year&#8217;s joint Christmas appeal we&#8217;d like to raise at least \u00a330 000, and we are asking you all to help us achieve this target. To make a donation now, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.uk\/secure\/51_13134.htm?heading=BMJ\/ADC+Christmas+Appeal&amp;sourcecode=A10065001\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never thought that much about water. I\u2019m vaguely aware I should drink more of it. But that\u2019s about it. 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