A new cholera outbreak is killing hundreds in Haiti. Scientists think it's the same strain that was brought to the country by UN troops more than a decade ago.

Dec 29 2022 by Business Insider

 
Patients rest on stretchers in the Cholera Treatment Center of Diquini in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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Haiti is currently experiencing its first cholera outbreak in three years. The country has reported 13,672 cases of the disease and 283 deaths since early October.  The current strain may be descended from the 2010 strain that UN troops likely brought.

Less than a year after the Haitian government declared that cholera had been eliminated in the country, the disease...

Continue Reading A new cholera outbreak is killing hundreds in Haiti. Scientists think it's the same strain that was brought to the country by UN troops more than a decade ago.