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The last cholera epidemic in the Western Hemisphere began in 1991 and lasted for nearly a decade, spreading across Central and South America, but not to the Caribbean islands. On 18 October 2010, during the working session at the Situational Room, Laboratoire Nationale de Santé Publique (LNSP) in Port au Prince, Haiti, an epidemiologist of the Cuban Medical Brigade (CMB) warned the participants about an unusual increase in the number of severe watery diarrhoea cases with dehydration and three deaths at the community reference hospital (CRH) of Mirebalais, located in Haiti’s Centre Department.

Palabras clave: Cholera epidemic; Haiti.

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Vol. 7 Núm.10. Octubre 2013 Pags. 753-755 J Infect Developing Countries 2013; 7(10)