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Gene sequencing of cholera bacterium from Haiti points to U.N. source
By Melissa Pandika
July 3, 2013, 12:08 p.m.
The United Nations sent Nepalese peacekeeping troops to bring relief to Haiti after it was devastated by a 7.0 earthquake in 2010. A new study concludes the peacekeepers brought something else, as well -- cholera, triggering an epidemic that has sickened hundreds of thousands of Haitians and killed more than 8,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Gene sequencing of cholera bacterium from Haiti points to U.N. source
By Melissa Pandika
July 3, 2013, 12:08 p.m.
The United Nations sent Nepalese peacekeeping troops to bring relief to Haiti after it was devastated by a 7.0 earthquake in 2010. A new study concludes the peacekeepers brought something else, as well -- cholera, triggering an epidemic that has sickened hundreds of thousands of Haitians and killed more than 8,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...