Approximately one in 20 (5%) infected persons will have severe disease characterized by profuse watery diarrhea, vomiting, and leg cramps.
What is the treatment for cholera?
Patients can be treated with oral rehydration solution, a prepackaged mixture of sugar and salts to be mixed with water and drunk in large amounts. This solution is used throughout the world to treat diarrhea. Severe cases also require intravenous fluid replacement. With prompt rehydration, fewer than 1% of cholera patients die.
Fruits and vegetables such as pineapples, sweet potatoes, and corn were cultivated by early Haitian tribes.
Throughout its history, several countries controlled Haiti, introducing food from their native lands. Haitian cuisine is mainly a mixture of those countries.
The country was once almost covered in virgin forests but these have now been reduced and now only cover about 4% of Haiti.
HERO is a health and education relief organization that assists those devastated by natural disasters. The group helps with a variety of projects, including health, education and infrastructure. It has helped establish medical clinics and new hospitals, as well as schools in various parts of the country. Infrastructure programs have helped establish water supplies and improve transportation by re-creating a runway.
Vodou music underwent major changes with the American invasion of 1915, vodou jazz develped as Haitians played it to reject the United States occupying soldiers.
Haitians dance videos to Haitians music videos we interpret it. We use the Arts as a means of touching that part of us that we cannot reach with Physical Science, Social Science, or any of the Humanities.