Health
When a deadly cholera outbreak spread through Haiti, these people traced the epidemic to its source – ABC News
Rumours swirled when cholera sprung up without warning in Haiti in 2010. But the whispers all had two things in common: the United Nations, and a river.
It was October 2010 when reports first emerged of a mysterious disease spreading through Haiti.
In a hospital in Saint Marc, about an hour north of the country’s capital Port-au-Prince, 400 cases of adults with watery diarrhoea had been reported in a single day.
On a regular day, there might be four people show up at the hospital with these symptoms.
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