Jul 24 2012
"U.S. legislators are appealing to the United Nations to take a greater role in addressing Haiti's cholera outbreak, now in its third year and which has left thousands dead," Inter Press Service reports. "In a letter addressed to U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Susan Rice, 104 U.S. members of Congress urged Rice to help step up U.N. concern over the outbreak," the news service writes. "'It is imperative for the U.N. to now act decisively to control the cholera epidemic,' Representative John Conyers, Jr. [D-Mich.] wrote," adding, "A failure to act will not only lead to countless more deaths ... [but] will pose a permanent public health threat," IPS notes (Freedman, 7/20).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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