Wednesday, December 8, 2010

UN peacekeepers likely cause of Haiti cholera outbreak: expert

By Jonathan M Katz
11:38 AM Wednesday Dec 8, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE - A contingent of UN peacekeepers is the likely source of a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed at least 2,000 people, a French scientist said in a report obtained by The Associated Press.

Epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux concluded that the cholera originated in a tributary of Haiti's Artibonite river, next to a UN base outside the town of Mirebalais.

He was sent by the French government to assist Haitian health officials in determining the source of the outbreak, a French Foreign Ministry official said.

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