Via The Portland Press Herald :
" Konbit Sante is coordinating with the government and other groups to contain the disease that has reached Cap Haitien.
Cholera has spread to Cap Haitien, the city in Haiti where a Portland-based group works to improve health conditions.
Nate Nickerson, executive director of the nonprofit Konbit Sante, said five cases of the deadly disease were confirmed Thursday night in Cap Haitien, the nation's second largest city.
Nickerson wrote in an e-mail Friday that a triage site had been set up outside Justinian University Hospital in Cap Haitien, where Konbit Sante has focused its health efforts in the poverty-stricken country during the past decade.
"The gymnasium near the hospital will be used for a treatment and isolation center," he wrote.
Until Thursday, Cap Haitien had been spared any cases of the cholera.
The Rev. Marc Boisvert, a Lewiston native who operates an orphanage and school outside Les Cayes, reported on his blog a week ago that no cases of the deadly disease had been documented in his region. It appears the situation in Les Cayes has not changed since."
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