Ten days before the presidential elections, on december 2010, Port-au-Prince continues to be affected by the cholera epidemic, the number of victims still increasing in the capital. Cholera epidemic, spreading to Haiti finds its source in the Artibonite region, fed by the river of the same name. On October 18, 2013, the World Health Organization ( WHO) estimates that the epidemic has caused 8,500 deaths over 700 000 cases recorded, mostly in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, but also in Cuba and Mexico.