SAVING LOVELY, SAVING HAITI
She should have died. For six days, Lovely Avelus lay beneath the rubble of her apartment building following the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince. No food, no water. And then sniffer dogs found what humans could not, giving Lovely a chance, again, at life. Her story — which we have updated — inspired a flood of donations from Star readers and this series, Lovely’s Haiti, an intimate look at her, her family and the future of her country. Read Lovely’s Story
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RESEARCHERS TRACE THE ORIGINS OF HAITI’S DEADLY CHOLERA OUTBREAK
2012/01/09 Megan Ogilvie Health Reporter
A father comforts his son at the Samaritan’s Purse cholera treatment clinic in Cabaret, Haiti after the young boy contracted cholera. The epidemic that began 10 months after the deadly quake struck Haiti two years ago has sickened half a million people.Naked, he would wander the town of Mirebalais, a small rural settlement an hour’s drive north of Haiti’s capital city.
His neighbours called him “moun fou,” or crazy person, because of the undiagnosed mental illness that caused him to suffer paranoia and auditory hallucinations.
The 28-year-old man would often go to the Latem River, on the outskirts of town, to bathe and drink the water — despite having clean, potable water in his home.
