Africa: Nearly 30 Countries 'Highly Vulnerable' to Ebola-Style...
London — Almost 30 countries around the world are "highly vulnerable" to an Ebola-style epidemic, with Somalia, Chad, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Haiti most at risk, a major charity said on Tuesday. An
View ArticleMega-disasters and urbanization spur spike in displacement: report
SENDAI, Japan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of people forced from their homes each year by disasters has quadrupled over the past four decades, and the risk of being displaced has doubled,
View ArticleHalf a million babies die each year in unhygienic hospitals
Over a third of hospitals and clinics in developing countries have nowhere for staff or patients to wash with soap, and almost 40 percent have no source of water, according to a WHO-backed international
View ArticleThirty new bean varieties bred to beat baking climate
Scientists have bred 30 new varieties of "heat-beating" beans designed to provide protein for the world's poor in the face of global warming, researchers announced on Wednesday. Described as "meat of
View ArticleFlood kills 6, leaves thousands homeless in Haiti
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — At least six people have died and several thousand homes flooded as Haiti's rainy season continues to bring suffering on the people of this French-speaking Caribbean...
View ArticleHaitian marine biologist wins environmental activism prize
A Haitian marine biologist who successfully fought to create a national park to protect a large swath of Haiti's north coast has won a prominent U.S. environmental activism prize. Jean Wiener was awarded
View ArticleProspects for malaria elimination in Mesoamerica and Hispaniola
Malaria remains endemic in 21 countries of the American continent with an estimated 427,000 cases per year. Approximately 10% of these occur in the Mesoamerican and Caribbean regions. During the last...
View ArticleThe name's bondi, Plagiodontia aedium bondi: Newly-discovered cat-sized...
Ian Fleming’s famous fictional spy is renowned for being a bit of a love rat. But now a real rodent has been discovered on the island of Hispaniola and it has been named James Bond's hutia - or...
View ArticleRegional trends and controlling factors of fatal landslides in Latin America...
A new data set of landslides that caused loss of life in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 10-year period from 2004 and 2013 inclusive has been compiled, providing new insight into the impact of
View ArticleCholera, climate change fuel Haiti's humanitarian crisis: UN
Climate change, cholera and the return of thousands of emigrants from the neighboring Dominican Republican are fueling a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, the UN warned Tuesday. The impoverished Caribbean
View ArticleThe impact of a one-dose versus two-dose oral cholera vaccine regimen in...
In 2013, a stockpile of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) was created for use in outbreak response, but vaccine availability remains severely limited. Innovative strategies are needed to maximize the health
View ArticleTS Erika dissipates leaving trail of death and destruction
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) - Five people were killed in Haiti as Tropical Storm Erika drenched sections of French speaking Caribbean Community (Caricom) member state. The Associated Press reports that
View ArticleWeather, war threaten to leave millions more hungry in 2016- aid agencies
Millions more people globally are facing the threat of severe food and water shortages in early 2016 as droughts and flood devastate crops and strain a humanitarian system already struggling to meet...
View ArticleNew seed varieties not reaching Africa's small farmers, study says
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Africa's small farmers, more than half of whom buy their seeds from local informal markets, need access to improved seeds that can yield more food and cope with...
View ArticleStrategies to prevent cholera introduction during international personnel...
Introduction of Vibrio cholerae to Haiti during the deployment of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers in 2010 resulted in one of the largest cholera epidemics of the modern era. Following the outbreak,
View ArticleHaiti struggles to contain massive cholera outbreak
Health departments in Haiti have issued alerts on a looming cholera outbreak in the troubled Caribbean nation. Haiti’s cholera epidemic began just ten months after the devastating earthquake that shook
View ArticleGlobal climate change driven by soot at the K-Pg boundary as the cause of the...
The mass extinction of life 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary, marked by the extinctions of dinosaurs and shallow marine organisms, is important because it led to the...
View ArticleA Preventable Crisis: El Niño and La Niña events need earlier responses and a...
The devastating impacts of the 2015–16 El Niño will be felt well into 2017. This crisis was predicted, yet overall, the response has been too little too late. The looming La Niña event may further hit
View ArticleUN admits role in Haiti's deadly cholera outbreak
The outbreak has killed about 10,000 people in Haiti since 2010 The UN has finally acknowledged it played a role in an outbreak of cholera in Haiti in 2010 that has since killed about 10,000 people in
View ArticleMajor shift of toxigenic V. cholerae O1 from Ogawa to Inaba serotype isolated...
In October of 2010, an outbreak of cholera was confirmed in Haiti for the first time in more than a century. A single clone of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor serotype Ogawa strain was...
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