Cholera Vaccines Unnecessary, Ineffective, Expensive, and Dangerous

By Rashid Haider, Haiti Chery | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Cholera vaccines are being pushed on Haiti, especially Shanchol, a vaccine that protects only 45 percent of those vaccinated during the first year and is unsuitable for controlling epidemic or endemic cholera. Shanchol is expensive. In addition, preparations of it for use in developing countries contain the mercury-based preservative thiomersal.

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The Uses of Haiti’s Poor Children: Guinea Pigs for Cholera Vaccines | Utilisations des enfants pauvres d’Haïti comme animaux-sujets pour les experiences avec des vaccins contre le choléra

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haiti’s Ministry of Health finally gave in and officially announced the beginning of a vaccination campaign against cholera, after one year of pressure from the UN’s Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The proposed vaccine, called Shanchol, is wrought with scandal, and preparations for use in developing countries contain the dangerous mercury-based preservative thiomersal. (English | French)

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Fidel’s Reflexions. Haiti: Underdevelopment and Genocide

By Fidel Castro Ruz, Cuban News Agency. Almost 40% of the sick have been looked after by members of the Cuban Medical Brigade which has 965 doctors, nurses and technicians who have managed to reduce the number of dead to less than 1 for each 100.

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Genocide in Haiti: Carelessness or Malice?

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The United Nations and 42 non-governmental organizations (NGO) are asking to be paid about $600 for every Haitian to be contaminated with cholera. There is money in cholera.

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Corporate Media Misleads Public on Cholera in Haiti. We Want to Know Why

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Hurricane Tomas swept through the Grande Anse region of Haiti last weekend, destroying over 1,000 homes and killing more than 30 people. I would challenge readers to find the words Grande Anse in any English-language news of Haiti.

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A Cholera Outbreak Introduced Into Haiti by a Foreign Source

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. To blame Haiti’s cholera outbreak on overcrowding and poor sanitation, as is routinely done in the news, is to suggest the impossible: that Vibrio cholera can spontaneously appear out of thin air though there’s been no record of cholera on the island in more than century.

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