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Scientists: UN Soldiers Brought Deadly Superbug to Americas
Yahoo News ABC News ^ | Thu, Jan 12, 2012 | By MATTHEW MOSK, BRIAN ROSS and RYM MOMTAZ | ABC News

Posted on 01/14/2012 3:13:27 PM PST by tired&retired

Compelling new scientific evidence suggests United Nations peacekeepers have carried a virulent strain of cholera -- a super bug -- into the Western Hemisphere for the first time. The vicious form of cholera has already killed 7,000 people in Haiti, where it surfaced in a remote village in October 2010. Leading researchers from Harvard Medical School and elsewhere told ABC News that, despite UN denials, there is now a mountain of evidence suggesting the strain originated in Nepal, and was carried to Haiti by Nepalese soldiers who came to Haiti to serve as UN peacekeepers after the earthquake that ravaged the country on Jan. 12, 2010 -- two years ago today. Haiti had never seen a case of cholera until the arrival of the peacekeepers, who allegedly failed to maintain sanitary conditions at their base. "What scares me is that the strain from South Asia has been recognized as more virulent, more capable of causing severe disease, and more transmissible,

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cholera; un
Here we go again
1 posted on 01/14/2012 3:13:38 PM PST by tired&retired
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To: tired&retired

It’s a pretty well established fact that the entirety of the UN is filled with disease. We need to take a flame thrower to it.


2 posted on 01/14/2012 3:16:27 PM PST by Apollo5600
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To: tired&retired

While the UN denies any involvement...... A genetic analysis of the strain found in Haiti matches identically the one involved in an outbreak in Nepal in August and September of 2010; The Nepalese peacekeeping troops deployed for Haiti at precisely that time; Two weeks before the outbreak, Haitians had reported sanitary breakdowns at the Nepalese encampment set along a tributary to the Artibonite River, about 60 miles north of the capital Port Au Prince. The next month, the earliest cases of cholera surfaced in the same remote area, from Haitians who had been drinking and bathing in the river.

Don’t worry, the US will pay for it like they do most of the UN!


3 posted on 01/14/2012 3:17:50 PM PST by tired&retired
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To: tired&retired

Yeah, that’s what makes us united..... /s


4 posted on 01/14/2012 3:23:12 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: tired&retired

Kondratieff and wave theory is right... A super wave will be a combination of economic collapse, war and disease... Just like last time...


5 posted on 01/14/2012 3:33:22 PM PST by Bon mots ("When seconds count, the police are just minutes away...")
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To: tired&retired

Yet another reason to loathe the Poofters of Turtle Bay.


6 posted on 01/14/2012 3:58:51 PM PST by pingman (Durn tootin'; I like Glock shootin'!)
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To: Bon mots

Bioterrorists one and all at the UN


7 posted on 01/14/2012 4:21:05 PM PST by Sioux-san
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To: tired&retired
Haiti had never seen a case of cholera until the arrival of the peacekeepers, who allegedly failed to maintain sanitary conditions at their base.

Hey, keep it clean, you're in Haiti now.

8 posted on 01/14/2012 4:22:28 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: tired&retired

Trust but verify: Could this be another Y2K/Bird Flu/Armaggedon-of-the-week that “The One” will save us from whilst he stops the oceans from rising?


9 posted on 01/14/2012 4:30:58 PM PST by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: BerryDingle

“Haiti had never seen a case of cholera until the arrival of the peacekeepers, who allegedly failed to maintain sanitary conditions at their base.”

I think the author may have exaggerated a bit here!


10 posted on 01/14/2012 11:04:07 PM PST by tired&retired
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Thanks tired&retired.
11 posted on 01/16/2012 11:28:22 AM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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