Haitian Citizens Reject Aid

Over 420 cases of Cholera have been confirmed in Haiti and there are now 284 total deaths. Help has been brought, but some has actually been rejected by protesters in Haiti. In the city of St. Marc, rocks were thrown at a cholera treatment center. This is quite puzzling. For some reason, the citizens of this city in Haiti fear that the treatment center will only make the problem worse. In Jonathon Katz's article, he explains further that,

Some of the roughly 300 students and other protesters said they feared the Doctors Without Borders-Spain clinic would bring more of the disease to their seaside town, which is one of the hardest hit in the week-old epidemic that has killed 284 people and infected 3,769, according to United Nations figures.

Right now, anyone crossing the border must wash their hands and fill out a medical form. Security has tightened in order to control any riots around the border.