Posted on 10/27/2010 8:19:42 PM PDT by aposiopetic
MIREBALAIS, Haiti – U.N. investigators took samples of foul-smelling waste trickling behind a Nepalese peacekeeping base toward an infected river system on Wednesday, following persistent accusations that excrement from the newly arrived unit caused the cholera epidemic that has sickened more than 4,000 people in the earthquake-ravaged nation.
Associated Press journalists who were visiting the base unannounced happened upon the investigators. Mission spokesman Vincenzo Pugliese confirmed after the visit that the military team was testing for cholera — the first public acknowledgment that the 12,000-member force is directly investigating allegations its base played a role in the outbreak.
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bttt
I’m not saying this needs to be seen as prophesied pestilence. However, the globalism that gives rise to the opportunity for such easily-spread illness should not be overlooked. We all need to watch and pray.
Indeed.
Well put.
Thx.
3......2.....1 It was GWB’s fault. Just wait.
I heard a report on the news that people from Haiti are being required to wash their hands and fill out forms before they can return, or come to the US. Now THAT is a tough rule.
Haiti’s capital had open sewers before the earthquake; even the Nepalese must be disgusted by the environment there.
Haiti now has a problem similar to New Orleans: many people don’t want to live there anymore. To hell with trying to fix it; they want to get into any other country (especially if not run by witch-doctors) and never look back. Haiti has been driven into the ground, and the earthquake was the last straw. Nature is taking it back...
I wonder where (besides the US) displaced Haitians go in significant numbers?
Some go to Quebec; I remember that happening when they were washing up in Florida in the 1990s during some unrest there.
Those first winters must be interesting...
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