So the Cholera epidemic in Haiti did start with the peace keepers

[malaise]

from Nepal according the the CDC.

Study suggests UN force brought cholera to Haiti

By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press – 1 day ago

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Evidence "strongly suggests" that a United Nations peacekeeping mission brought a cholera strain to Haiti that has killed thousands of people, a study by a team of epidemiologists and physicians says.

The study is the strongest argument yet that newly-arrived Nepalese peacekeepers at a base near the town of Mirebalais brought with them the cholera, which spread through the waterways of the Artibonite region and elsewhere in this impoverished Caribbean country.

The disease has killed more than 5,500 people and sickened more than 363,000 others since it was discovered in October, according to the Haitian government.

"Our findings strongly suggest that contamination of the Artibonite (river) and 1 of its tributaries downstream from a military camp triggered the epidemic," said the report in the July issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Poor Haiti :cry: :cry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PDuOxwAS3I

[Taverner]

1. The law of unintended consequences strikes again eom

[Fire1]

2. Unintended? Sometimes I wonder. n/t

[malaise]

3. Same here

:hi:

[EFerrari]

17. When our government on purpose undermines and hollows out

Haitian democracy, the assaults on the wellbeing of the Haitian people cannot be said to be unintended.

And that stands to right this moment, when all our donations to help Haiti are being funneled to landowners and corporations who want sweatshops there.

Big fat FAIL on Bill Clinton and on Hillary Clinton and that's the kindest, most restrained way to put it.

[valerief]

4. Everything bad starts with 'peace'keepers. nt

[uppityperson]

5. Everything? Absolutely "everything bad"? nt

[valerief]

6. Peacekeepers are sent to protect the interests of the wealthy. The wealthy stay wealthy

on backs of the poor.

[malaise]

7. 100% correct

Defend the status quo from the people

[leftstreet]

8. +1

[Starry Messenger]

15. +1

[uppityperson]

18. I agree with this. I was just objecting to what I saw as hyperbole in previous

comment that "everything" bad happens because of peacekeepers. Sorry for the snark and I agree with this.

[valerief]

19. Ha! nt

[Karenina]

9. I saw a story on AlJ which featured

2 young intrepid reporters who got shots of the sewage problems. They got chased away and the story was a one-off. In the days following ALL THE MEDIA were on about those silly Haitians just looking for someone to blame besides themselves. :eyes:

[EFerrari]

10. Of course it did. And while the outbreak was surging

we were still deporting. We were still deporting on the State Department's Global Fight Cholera Day.

:shrug:

[malaise]

11. Amazing isn't it

or is this the new norm

[EFerrari]

13. I think it's the new normal.

I don't think anything makes me as crazy mad as Haiti does. :mad:

[ej510]

12. When will the terror on black people globally end?

I am sick of this shit! People who look like me are beaten down, pissed on and shitted on.

[malaise]

14. You are not alone

I can't take much more of this or the willingness of our own to sell us out time after time.

[ej510]

16. I agree with you which is why I cannot stand the Uncle Clarence types.

I am mad at Obama to, because he is one of us and he ignores his people in Kenya.

[malaise]

20. Poor Obama

His hands are full in his own country