Month: April 2012

PUERTO PRINCIPE (AP) – Haiti has seen an increase in the number of cases of cholera with the onset of the rainy season, it was reported on Tuesday the UN. The Office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations said in a bulletin that detected new cases of cholera in Western Haiti. At the beginning of March, when they start the night rains, health officials 77 new cases reported daily throughout the country. New cases emerge after submitting a steady decline. During the rainy season from last year, organizations of humanitarian aid workers arrived to register more than 1,000 cases within a few days. Health officials say the disease has killed more than 7,000 people and ill to other 530.000 since it was introduced presumably by a unit of UN troops after the earthquake of...

MEXICO City (Reuters) – A dizziness that suffered the official candidate for the Presidency of Mexico, Josefina Vázquez Mota, was due to that she suffers from low pressure for some time, said Tuesday his campaign spokesman, dismissing concerns about the health of the leader. On Monday, Vazquez Mota, which progresses in second place in polls of voting intention, had to interrupt speech which gave at an event on security in the city of Mexico because he suffered a dizziness, which forced her to continue with the use of the word from their seats. The candidate said moments after the incident that he felt well, but with the flu and tired for a rally that led early on Monday in the central State of Hidalgo. “It was a problem of pressure, she suffers from low pressure,” said Augusta Díaz Rivera, spokesman for the campaign press conference. “She has a very good state of health, it has always had.” “The problem of low pressure is a condition that she has long since and in no way prevents you from fulfilling its commitments as a candidate,” stressed. Spokeswoman said, however, that the candidate not planned for the moment reveal examinations on his State of health, to respond to a specific question. Vázquez Mota, of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), is exceeded in some polls of intention to vote towards the election...