UN force brought cholera to Haiti: Study Port-au-Prince:
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. The study is the strongest argument yet that
newly-arrived Nepalese peacekeepers at a base near the town of
Mirebalais brought with them the cholera, which spread through
the waterways of the Artibonite region and elsewhere in this
impoverished Caribbean country. The disease has killed more than
5,500 people and sickened more than 363,000 others since it was
discovered in October, according to the Haitian government. "Our
findings strongly suggest that contamination of the Artibonite
(river) and 1 of its tributaries downstream from a military camp
triggered the epidemic," said the report in the July issue of
Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal of the US Centres for
Disease Control and Prevention. The article says there is "an
exact correlation" in time