Morning Briefing

"A year and a half after cholera first struck Haiti, a tiny portion of the population on Thursday began getting vaccinated against the waterborne disease that has infected more than 530,000 Haitians and killed more than 7,040," the New York Times reports (Sontag, 4/12). The pilot project, which will reach only one percent of Haiti's population, "aim[s] ... to show that it's possible to give the required two doses over a two-week period to desperately poor and hard-to-reach people," NPR's health blog "Shots" writes. "If it works, the plan is to convince the Haitian government, deep-pocketed donors and international health agencies to support a much bigger campaign to vaccinate millions of Haitians at highest risk of cholera," according to the blog (Knox, 4/12).