Comportamiento de la epidemia en el Centro de Tratamiento del Cólera en la comuna de Plaisance, Haití. Noviembre 2010-febrero 2011

we carried out a descriptive work on the behavior of the cholera in the commune of plaisance of the north department of haiti, from november 22nd 2010 to february 28th 2011, with the objective of determining the behavior of some variables related with the cholera, demographically characterizing the studied sample and determining the cholera tendency in that commune. the universe was formed by the 1 312 new cases of cholera found in the studied period. 42 % of the new cholera cases entered the center for the parenteral way treatment, there were not significant differences in relation with the genre; the most affected age group was the > 15 years one with 63,57 %; there were not deceases among the 551 entered patients, and the tendency decreased beginning from the first week of the creation of the cholera treatment center, where we developed an intense educative and prophylactic work.