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French Expert Says Haiti Cholera Outbreak Imported

by Kathy Jones on November 30, 2010 at 10:28 PM General Health News

A leading French epidemiologist has said that the strain of cholera that triggered an epidemic that has claimed more than 1,600 lives in Haiti must have been brought in from abroad.

French Expert Says Haiti Cholera Outbreak Imported

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Many in Haiti believe the deadly outbreak was caused by poor sanitation at a camp for United Nations peacekeeping troops from Nepal, a country where the disease is endemic. The UN force has said there is no proof of this.

Cholera specialist Professor Renaud Piarroux spoke to AFP on his return from Haiti, where he conducted a study for the Haitian government. He warned that the epidemic could yet cause sickness in 200,000 people.

"It started in the centre of the country, not by the sea, nor in the refugee camps. The epidemic can't be of local origin. That's to say, it was imported," he told AFP, without directly fingering the Nepalese camp.

Cholera added to the woes of the impoverished Caribbean nation, which was devastated by a massive earthquake in January that killed a quarter of a million people and left 1.3 million living in ramshackle refugee camps.

At the weekend, Haiti struggled to hold credible elections amid the chaos left by the double tragedy, and violent protests having broken out, pitting rival factions against each other or against UN peacekeepers.

Haitian officials say the first cases of cholera, a waterborne illness, broke out on the banks of the Artibonite river, downstream of a Nepalese UN base in Mirebalais, in the centre of the country.

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