Morning Briefing

The U.N.'s Pan-American Health Organization, the United States and the international community "should be working with the Haitian Health Ministry to wage a more aggressive and effective effort" against the cholera epidemic that hit the country last year, and those efforts "should include not only clean water and sanitation systems but more antibiotics and cholera vaccinations," a New York Times editorial says. "Ramping up manufacturing" of the cholera vaccine -- of which there are less than 400,000 doses worldwide -- "could be readily done and would have global benefits," the editorial states.