Cholera is caused by drinking dirty toxic water, or eating food cooked in contaminated water. The surprise is that Haitians not directly affected by the earthquake, living outside of the capital in areas where there has always been a shortage of clean drinking water are suddenly getting sick. Where are the additional toxins coming from? The assumption the International NGOs, aid agencies and UN are making is that the Artibonite River is contaminated, making the people living in the regions where the river crosses sick with cholera. But how did this river, situated North from the earthquake devastation in Port au Prince and other areas South become the source of the cholera disease? How did it move up North to the Artibonite River from the Southern parts of Haiti? "There is no evidence," suggests Dr. Gabriel Timothee, a Haitian public health official, that the Artibonite River is the source of the disease and "examinations are under way to try to determine the source of the disease." (See, Alterpress - Haïti-Choléra : Situation d’urgence humanitaire 9 mois après la catastrophe du 12 janvier ; and, a Haiti report, also reiterated by Maeva Bambuck, a France 24 (English) reporter in Haiti, maintains there is a strong rumor the cholera outbreak originated from the Nepalese UN soldiers who are carriers of cholera and are stationed in the Artibonite region of the outbreak.)

Haiti news outlets report President Rene Preval also maintains that the strain of Vibrio cholerae is imported, and that cholera has never been present before in the country.

Speaking of brackish water, if it's proven that the Artibonite River is infected and that this most likely comes from an infected Haitian person from the earthquake refugee camps, who travelled North, then any scientific analysis of this cholera situation must also take into account that the displaced people in the camps of Port au Prince have been complaining since two months after the earthquake that the Red Cross water they've been given to drink, for instance, gives them stomach aches.

No one knows for sure yet how cholera got to Haiti. But it's in Haiti now and either foul drinking water or food that's been soaked or cooked in contaminated water is killing a new crop of Haitians, giving them cholera while donations that could have provided permanent clean drinking water are collecting interests for the thousands of charity organizations making a business out of poverty and the earthquake in Haiti.

AP, BBC, the New York Times and other mainstream news parrot each other, not emphasizing that cholera has never before been found in Haiti. The racist assumption is Haitians are always diseased and the invasion of international charity workers and UN soldiers are all healthy from countries with no cholera diseases, so these news agencies so far only deign to write that cholera has not been found in Haiti for "centuries." But at least one news report does firmly explain this is the first time that cholera has been found in Haiti and this cholera epidemic most likely was imported to Haiti by a healthy carrier after the earthquake.

"(S)ome observers fault the US for in the past blocking funds to improve Haiti’s water systems. In 2001, in response to the policies of then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the US blocked the Inter-American Development Bank from loaning $54 million to assist Haiti’s public-water system.

The report “Wòch nan Soley: The Denial of the Right to Water in Haiti,” found that “the United States actively impeded the Haitian government’s capacity to fulfill Haitians’ human right to water through its actions, thus breaching its duty to respect human rights.” (Haiti cholera outbreak 'stabilizing' – but could affect election.)

The Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN) would like to make a positive difference but we do not have monetary resources to purchase these or similar all-inclusive water/ electricity/ communication units for the villagers. Something like this Max-Pure-01 system is what is necessary as well as information on how to prevent cholera and reliable self-help info on natural herbal remedies recommended if infected. We're coming to the Ezili Network and asking for a partnership with others in the Diaspora, at home and in the conscious community worldwide. But if you've looking for the International Community to finance permanent clean drinking water for the masses, that doesn't come from a bottle or purification pill to be purchased from USAID's profiteering contractors making a killing off the poverty business, you're too unconscious to help anyone. Kindly don't contact us with your contributions to "saving lives" while promoting dependency in Haiti. For Haiti's problems are rooted in "aid" administered in the context of patronage and dependence aimed at perpetuating oppression and exploitation.

But if you understand the poverty business will not leave any permanent good or infrastruture in Haiti, like self-renewing, permanent clean drinking water, because that would make their presence obsolete, then we could work together. We'd like help to mobilize the conscious community to provide self-reliant, permanent source of clean drinking water for the people DYING in Haiti. Please let us know how we may use the Ezili Network to help. These environmentally conscious, solar-powered systems, along with bulldozers, tractors and heavy equipment for removing rubble should have already been in Haiti at least a month after the earthquake. But humanitarian aid is profit business and though the technology and equipment exist to alleviate the common person's sufferings worldwide, none of the policymakers with checkbook power are in the business of saving lives unless its profitable or meets US Empire incessant resource warfare and big-business interests.

Remember, all the International Community will do with this cholera outbreak is blame it on the "diseased Haitians" to perpetuate their existence in Haiti; rehash this disinformation and colonial narrative ad nausea to continue to contain Haiti in perpetual dependence, death, misery and poverty; distract from the uncomfortable questions of "where are the donation dollars and reconstruction monies"; use the occasion to solicit more monies to buy their own country's antibiotics, dehydration pills or bottled water leaving no permanently renewable clean water infrastructure in Haiti as usual. Or, suppressed the number of Haitians dying in order to make themselves look good because they KEPT the earthquake donations collecting interest in the NGO/charitable organization's coffers for "future use." Almost 300 Haitians, not including those dead from the recent rains, but who've died of cholera now have NO FUTURE and over 3,612 are said to be infected. Here's the de-contextualized refrain: Right now the infection is an epidemic. There has not been such an epidemic in the region for a century...It could kill "tens of thousands" and "likely to remain in Haiti for years to come" (See Cholera Epidemic in Haiti Highlights Deteriorating Conditions | October 22, 2010 - 1:20 PM | by: Steve Harrigan. http://bit.ly/cP1Zmg ; Haiti's first cholera epidemic in a century kills scores, Guardian.co.uk .)

Of course it matters not that the evidence is not yet in as to what’s the source of the water and food contamination or if a non-Haitian, such as the UN soldiers or the aid workers, transmitted the disease from their countries or travels into Haiti and are infecting and transmitting to vulnerable and over-stressed Haitians. Haiti is blamed just as it was erroneously blamed and ostracized for originating the HIV virus. The Dominican Republic sealed its border with "cholera-plagued Haiti," presumably so not to be contaminated by the contagious, disease-ridden Haitians. (See, Cholera kills more than 1,500 people in Nigeria. Nepal also has regular cholera outbreaks and there are Nepalese United Nations soldiers, for instance, participating in the UN mission in Haiti stationed in the regions the cholera outbreak started in Haiti.)

"Haiti pains are a good capital asset for the NGO industry. They wouldn’t have a job, salaries and tropical vacations and the illicit black sex they crave from Africans, without our pains, indignities, death, submissions and sufferings. Imagine swallowing the nutritional supplements, vitamins, vaccines and the other pharmaceuticals USAID insist are "aid to Haiti," when you've not eaten in four days? And the HIV drugs (and now "medicine" and rehydration tablets for cholera) you have to swallow are also washed down with toxic ground water, in some ways also from US/Euro/ Canada gold, copper, oil, iridium, uranium, coal, marble, granite, limestone, aggregate and other mining companies who pollute Haiti's shores and riverbeds. When the earthquake hit, many of us who lived through the two recent US coup d’etats in Haiti, the two Gonaives hurricane destructions of 2004 and then in 2008, knew these poverty pimps, knew they would crank up the press releases and telethons and collect and collect and collect, while the majority of people suffer, lose more, grieve and die in Haiti. In our minds' eye we saw USAID, CRS, CARE, Red Cross, World Vision, et al... sad perhaps, but still calculating and salivating at the huge prospects of monies to be collected from the deaths and brutal suffering of Haitians. It’s a profitable gig the poverty pimps are just not about to give up." (See, Poverty Pimps Masturbating on Black Pain: Monsanto Joins pack, May 17, 2010 http://bit.ly/dj4mUc)

"A U.N. Report released in March of 2010 said that dirty water kills more people each year than all forms of violence combined including war. According to the WHO, of the 42,000 deaths that occur every week from unsafe water and a lack of basic sanitation, 90% are children under 5 years old...80 percent of all disease is caused by lack of basic sanitation and lack of clean water. There are 4,500 kids that die everyday from lack of basic sanitation and water"simple diseases like diarrhea. But (Lane Wood) said, there are some less obvious impacts of drinking dirty water. For example, dirty water can undermine other humanitarian efforts that money and effort have been poured into, like efforts to control AIDS/HIV in Africa. They're going home, they're taking their medicine with bacteria-filled water, and their bodies are not absorbing the medicine." (The Plantation called Haiti: Feudal Pillage Masking as Humanitarian Aid - http://bit.ly/929NXS ; Lane Wood says 2010 earthquake took toll on Haiti's water - http://bit.ly/br88o3)