> Out behind these [port-a-potty] facilities it was 
> obvious that many people had not. Why was not 
> apparent. Maybe something similar happened 
> in the fields where spinach was harvested.

It is apparent to anyone who has traveled the 3rd World and strayed from the
package tour's guided path or the confines of the all-inclusive resort.
There is a cultural predisposition to squat and do one's business al fresco.
Indoor plumbing and indoor toilets are a miraculous luxury that only a tiny
percentage of the Earth's population has ever even seen, let alone used.   

The amazing thing is that we can STILL all line go up at USAID, and get free
round-trip tickets to the far corners of the Earth simply to try to convince
people to fetch their drinking water UPSTREAM of where they poop, and thus
avoid cholera.  USAID will also likely load us down with rehydration packets
to take with us, as rehydration is the only way to survive cholera, and if a
simple packet of salt and a few other minerals is added to the water, the
cholera victim recovers readily.  It's pretty cool that you can, on a
"vacation" personally save a few hundred lives at a net cost of about $5.00
worth of rehydration packets, and watch them recover in front of your eyes.
That never gets old.

Hati's cholera outbreak, which has continued to take lives in Haiti since
October 2010, when UN peacekeepers from Nepal brought the disease with them,
and did a lousy job of latrine maintenance, should still scare anyone with
direct flights arriving from Hati.     

I've seen far too much Cholera to worry much about Ebola.  I've seen things
that I can't forget, no matter how I try.  So, I keep bees, as they are cute
and fuzzy.

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