Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Haiti cholera still the worst globally - U.N.

Haiti's cholera outbreak is still the worst in the world, the top U.N. envoy there said Monday.

Sandra Honore briefed the U.N. Security Council about the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti, crime rates, public health, and the cholera outbreak.

She told reporters "progress is being made" on the cholera epidemic. Of the 680,820 cases reported since 2010, only 6 percent arose last year - some 58,000 infections.

Honore said "the overall incidence of the disease has been reduced by

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