The rising threat of cholera is shaping every aspect of the humanitarian response to Hurricane Matthew, two weeks after the storm wrought devastation across parts of Haiti.
Already, the suspected number of cholera cases in Haiti appears to be rising and is expected to continue to increase. From Oct. 4 to 13 there were 1,116 cases, but from Oct. 2 to 15 new figures showed that number had jumped to 1,351.
There have been 28,559 reported cholera cases and 267 deaths over the course of 2016 through September, a sharp decrease since the epidemic spread in 2010 when nearly 4,000 people died that year alone.