Thursday 30 June 2011

Study suggests UN force brought cholera to Haiti (AP)

Health workers arrive at a tent city on the outskirts of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince to recover the body of a cholera victim in 2010. UN peacekeepers from Nepal brought the strain of cholera to Haiti responsible for an epidemic that has killed 5,500 people, according to a study published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.(AFP/File/Hector Retamal)AP - Evidence "strongly suggests" that a United Nations peacekeeping mission brought a cholera strain to Haiti that has killed thousands of people, a study by a team of epidemiologists and physicians says.



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