BBC: New evidence has emerged about the alleged role of United Nations troops in causing a cholera epidemic in the Caribbean nation of Haiti.
A top US cholera specialist, Dr Daniele Lantagne, said after studying new scientific data that it is now "most likely" the source of the outbreak was a camp for recently-arrived UN soldiers from Nepal - a country where cholera is widespread.
Dr Lantagne was employed by the UN itself in 2011 as one of the world's pre-eminent experts on the disease.
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Haiti cholera ‘started at UN camp’
Posted by BBC: Mark Doyle on October 22nd, 2012
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