Cholera Spreads to Port-Au-Prince Prison

Thirty prisoners have been infected by the disease, and ten have died in the past four days.

The Red Cross says it is working to contain an outbreak of cholera at the national prison in Haiti’s capital. The facility houses 2,000 inmates. On Thursday violent protests continued in Port-Au-Prince, as many Haitians blame the UN for the spread of a disease that had never appeared in Haiti before international workers arrived in the wake of the devastating earthquake in January. Yesterday in Port-Au-Prince protestors threw stones at UN soldiers and attacked truckloads of foreigners. The UN has denied that its soldiers are responsible for the outbreak, and said the violence is being by encouraged by forces seeking to disrupt the presidential election on Nov. 28. Cholera has killed 1,100 people in Haiti since October.