Haiti’s deadly cholera epidemic was most likely caused by Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers whose toilets contaminated a river, according to a French disease expert.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the report by epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux, who investigated the outbreak for the Haitian and French governments. He concluded that it originated at the peacekeepers’ base outside Mirebalais, along a tributary to Haiti’s Artibonite River. The strain of cholera matched one from South Asia, although it’s also found in Latin America.
