Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (CNN)--in after Hurricane Tomas, cholera is congested capital of Port-au-Prince, where as 73 people have come to the potentially lethal infection.
Dehydration is one of the tell-tale signs.
In a camp in cabaret, just east of Port-au-Prince, children in cots as life-preserving liquid is pumped intravenously to operators.
The cholera epidemic in Haiti now has killed people and obtain treatment 583 another 9,123 people, according to Gabriel Timothe, Director-General of the Ministry of health in Haiti.
Health workers are afraid of rising waters above the banks of the River Arbonite in Haiti, who say that is a source of contamination, have increased the risk that a greater proportion of food-borne infections.
"Do everything we can to mitigate [the] spread," Dr. Jon k. Andrus, Deputy Director of the Pan American Health Organization, said at the press conference on Tuesday.
Health officials were braced for problems after Tomas, fearing hurricane that battered Caribbean nation weekend could be aggravated in the event of an epidemic of cholera.
On Monday, Dr. Toni Eyssallenne hospital Bernard Mevs confirmed its first case of cholera--a boy 3-year-old--come and manifestly entirely in Port-au-Prince.
Two further cases confirmed Tuesday by Eyssallenne.
41-Year-old woman who contracted the disease has not been placed in a year, said A 33-year-old employee. living in a tent city uses a source of municipal water.She, too, did not bring the contamination in the city.
Earlier cases had been centered in Haiti's Artibonite and Central Plateau regions, including the city of St. Marc, North of the capital of the nation. until Monday, health officials said that those being treated for cholera in Port-au-Prince everyone having contracted the disease elsewhere.
The young boy Port-au-Prince lived in a tent city across the street from the place that sells pasta, and had not traveled to more than one year, and did not have contact with people from St. Marc or Artibonite region, said Eyssallenne.
After suffering from nausea and diarrhea, the boy was treated and released from the hospital, has improved.
Hurricane Tomas ' trek past Haiti killed 20 people and injured another 36, an official Ministry of communications said seven people were missing Monday. and 5,954 was homeless, an official said.
Health officials fear that water dumped by the storm would aggravate the outbreak; The concern is that overflow from latrines and septic tanks could contaminate the supply of fresh drinking water and to contribute to the spread of bacteria.
In the capital, the canals not overflowing, said a representative of the American Red Cross Andrea Koppel. But this was not the case in the cities West of the capital, which bore the brunt of Hurricane Tomas said.
Still, even Port-au-Prince looks and smells like a dump--a caldron water, garbage and human waste. "We get used to it, "said one resident.
Ten months after an earthquake magnitude-7 planned waste much of the nation, people who compete with animals discharge procedure and the omnipresent dumps for scraps of food.
"It is a quick solution," said Environment Minister Jean Marie Claude Germain. "Management means that you have a structure in place, but the structure is designed with the SLUMS into account. "
But most of the residents of Port-au-Prince live in slums.
"We are working on this," said Germain. "We will work with the private sector. "Paula Newton of CNN have contributed to this story.
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