Fear of cholera Sample Clauses

Fear of cholera. Cholera is a reality for communities in each of the three regions where we conducted Focus Group Discussions (FGDs). Each discussion began with a community timeline activity in which groups were asked to name the important events that in occurred in their community from the time of the January 2010 earthquake until the present day (Summer 2012). Most groups, with the exception of the group in the small city of Basanblu in Jolivert, named cholera very early on in the discussion with little probing. People in all three program regions were very familiar with the disease. Only one focus group, Léogâne’s Section 12, said that cholera had not yet arrived in their community. But even they were keenly aware that it was just around the corner. All groups knew the physical manifestations of the disease and the rapidity with which it can kill its victims. Several terms were used to refer to cholera in the FGDs, kolera (cholera), maladi a (the sickness), toro a (the bull), and the evenman (the event). Community members equated cholera with the “death and suffering” of anpil, anpil moun (“many, many people”) both in and outside of their communities. Even the remote communities in rural Jolivert knew that cholera was a nationwide epidemic. Several communities in each of the three regions discussed knowing that it had been worse in other communities. According to 5 In this section, quotes begin with the FGD participant number or letter of the person speaking. Each quote is labeled with the FGD village name and paragraph number in parentheses. two participants in Jolivert, not only was the destruction of cholera not particular to their community, but they perceived it to be less severe than the cholera they experienced in other communities: P2: Cholera is everywhere right now. Cholera was not as bad as it was in other places because it did not kill a lot of people.