Comments on: Tomas = fan. https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/04/tomas-fan/ Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:32:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/04/tomas-fan/#comment-525851 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:32:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/04/tomas-fan/#comment-525851 Actually, the cholera may have been a semi independent thing. There is not a good vaccine for cholera in general, if things are now the way they were when I worked in cholera areas. This is a strain that arrived from Asia somewhere just now, so if there was a vaccination program it may have been ineffective. (It may even be that they don’t vaccinate any more for it, but rather, just treat it).

Nonetheless, everyone still seems to be living in tents. It has been a while. I assume there is no serious effort to help there beyond the flash in the pan right after the last disaster.

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/04/tomas-fan/#comment-525850 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:10:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/04/tomas-fan/#comment-525850 I am very disheartened (but not totally surprised) that all of the money donated to Haiti relief would being so ineffectively spent. I would have thought that they would have started out with cholera, tetanus, typhus vaccinations. These are diseases we KNOW will show up soon after any mass disaster. Most of the people are STILL homeless. Where is the money being spent. I have a cousin organizing relief in Haiti (he has been using his money to go to Haiti for years to build schools and provide other relief–none of it religious). I understand the wobbly infrastructure of the country has completely collapsed, but after the Katrina fiasco, there should be a plan..

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/04/tomas-fan/#comment-525849 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:57:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/04/tomas-fan/#comment-525849 I checked her blog, but it is fairly inactive, and nothing on her facebook feed about this, which is current, so I figure she’s not linked in there at the moment, or choosing not to engage visibly.

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/04/tomas-fan/#comment-525848 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:52:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/04/tomas-fan/#comment-525848 Have you reached out to Arikia? She’ll be watching closely and got better information than most on the earthquake aftermath.

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