Disaster expert: Haiti cholera outbreak linked to UN troops

There is strong evidence linking UN peacekeepers to a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed more than 2,000 people, a French disease expert has said.

Disaster expert: Haiti cholera outbreak linked to UN troops

There is strong evidence linking UN peacekeepers to a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed more than 2,000 people, a French disease expert has said.

Renaud Piarroux said in a report that the most likely explanation for the outbreak is that Haiti’s Artibonite river was contaminated by a base of UN troops from Nepal.

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