CDC Responds to Cholera Outbreak in Haiti

CDC is working closely with other U.S. government agencies and international partners in support of the Haitian government’s response to the cholera outbreak in that country. CDC is collaborating with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Pan American Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and a host of other organizations to assist the Haiti Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP) in a concerted effort to control the outbreak.

• Public Health in Haiti: Saving Lives, Controlling the Spread of Cholera
• Haiti Cholera Response: Stories from the Field, Part 1
• Haiti Cholera Response: Stories from the Field, Part 2
• CDC Staff Make a Difference in Haiti: Jordan W. Tappero
• NEJM Perspectives: Public Health in Haiti — Challenges and Progress
• USAID Is Responding to the Cholera Outbreak in Haiti

For more information about the outbreak in Haiti and about cholera in general, see

• CDC Cholera website
• 2010 Haiti Cholera Outbreak