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Cholera is a contagious disease caused by a poison that reproduces in the human body and is present in vomit and stool of patients. Water contaminated with the poison is the principal vector of transmission of the disease. The most common symptoms are: watery diarrhea, uncontrollable vomiting, abdominal pain, rapid weight loss, sunken cheeks, sunken eyes, and sometimes even death if the patient is not treated immediately. The bacillus of cholera spreads rapidly in crowded areas where inadequate access to safe water and sanitation, the fact of garbage dumping and feces directly into the river where the population obtains water for cooking, personal hygiene facilitate the spread of the disease. For the first time in decades that Haiti is facing such an epidemic. Even in 1991, when a cholera epidemic struck the unprecedented coast of Peru, the island of Hispaniola was spared while the disease had spread in many countries of Latin America and even Canada. The president visited th