It was only a matter of days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated parts of Haiti in January before aid agencies were warning of a secondary disaster in the making.
With 1.5 million people on the streets, medical and sanitation systems destroyed and water at a premium the potential for a disease outbreak was acute, they said.
For the past nine months recovery and reconstruction efforts have been accompanied by preventative health schemes.
Questions were being asked yesterday as to why that had not included spending some of the billions of dollars in aid on a vaccination programme against killer infections such as cholera.
Cholera had not been reported in Haiti for decades and was therefore not perceived as a likely threat — a rationale that critics…