UN responsible for introducing cholera to Haiti, with devastating consequences

[Axulus]

Before 2010, cholera had been unknown in Haiti for at least a century. And the impoverished, earthquake-devastated country was already struggling with water and sanitation.

A panel of experts appointed by the U.N. found that the strain of cholera that popped up in Haiti was "a perfect match" for a strain found in Nepal. Nepalese peacekeepers were staying at the U.N. camp, and poor sanitation sent sewage from the camp into local waterways.

Since its introduction to Haiti in October 2010, cholera has killed more than 9,300 Haitians and sickened over 800,000. It showed up some 10 months after a devastating earthquake in the south of Haiti, deepening the country's misery at a time when it was ill-equipped to cope with another crisis.

'Part of the reason we think the outbreak grew so quickly was the Haitian population had no immunity to cholera,' says Daniele Lantagne , an environmental engineer at Tufts University. 'Something like when the Europeans brought smallpox to the Americas, and it burned through the native populations

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ti-cholera-outbreak-that-has-killed-thousands

The UN is immune from any legal damages, US appeals court affirms.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/aponline...lawsuit.html?referer=https://news.google.com/

 

[whichphilosophy]

Before 2010, cholera had been unknown in Haiti for at least a century. And the impoverished, earthquake-devastated country was already struggling with water and sanitation.

A panel of experts appointed by the U.N. found that the strain of cholera that popped up in Haiti was "a perfect match" for a strain found in Nepal. Nepalese peacekeepers were staying at the U.N. camp, and poor sanitation sent sewage from the camp into local waterways.

Since its introduction to Haiti in October 2010, cholera has killed more than 9,300 Haitians and sickened over 800,000. It showed up some 10 months after a devastating earthquake in the south of Haiti, deepening the country's misery at a time when it was ill-equipped to cope with another crisis.

'Part of the reason we think the outbreak grew so quickly was the Haitian population had no immunity to cholera,' says Daniele Lantagne , an environmental engineer at Tufts University. 'Something like when the Europeans brought smallpox to the Americas, and it burned through the native populations

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ti-cholera-outbreak-that-has-killed-thousands

The UN is immune from any legal damages, US appeals court affirms.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/aponline...lawsuit.html?referer=https://news.google.com/

Was there any way of knowing that a Nepalese strain of Cholera would mix with a local strain?

 

[untermensche]

The reason they can't deal with Cholera is because of the poverty.

The reason for the poverty has everything to do with US and French violence and exploitation.

Generally where you find the US taking a very active role and invading over and over you will find great poverty like in Haiti and Guatemala. US interference is meant to cause the poverty. So it can be exploited.

In 1990 Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected President despite the US backing another candidate. He tried to introduce measure to help with the poverty.

So the US basically removed him. Putting him back in power after he agreed to institute the policies the US backed candidate was going to institute.

Policies to allow the US to exploit Haiti to the greatest extent possible.

And this was under Clinton.

Not a friend to the Haitian people but a good friend to big business.

His wife is not that different.

 

[Axulus]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ti-cholera-outbreak-that-has-killed-thousands

The UN is immune from any legal damages, US appeals court affirms.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/aponline...lawsuit.html?referer=https://news.google.com/

Was there any way of knowing that a Nepalese strain of Cholera would mix with a local strain?

The UN facility that was set up leaked untreated sewage into the local water sources. That is negligance regardless of whether such cholera epidemic could've been forseen by such event.

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The reason they can't deal with Cholera is because of the poverty.

The reason for the poverty has everything to do with US and French violence and exploitation.

Generally where you find the US taking a very active role and invading over and over you will find great poverty like in Haiti and Guatemala. US interference is meant to cause the poverty. So it can be exploited.

In 1990 Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected President despite the US backing another candidate. He tried to introduce measure to help with the poverty.

So the US basically removed him. Putting him back in power after he agreed to institute the policies the US backed candidate was going to institute.

Policies to allow the US to exploit Haiti to the greatest extent possible.

And this was under Clinton.

Not a friend to the Haitian people but a good friend to big business.

His wife is not that different.

What does any of this have to do with the UN's role in these 10,000 deaths and 800,000 illnesses?

 

[Tom Sawyer]

This isn't cholera, it's a freedom bug.

On behalf of the UN, you're welcome, Haiti.

 

[lpetrich]

Axulus, if some tourists introduced some nasty disease organism, would you denounce tourism with the fervor that you denounce the UN?

 

[Axulus]

Axulus, if some tourists introduced some nasty disease organism, would you denounce tourism with the fervor that you denounce the UN?

If they set up a facility that leaked raw sewage into the local water supply which spred the disease, yes, I would condemn those tourists and anyone responsible for overseeing the setting up of that facility.

lpetrich, if a private profit seeking company introduced some nasty disease organism into the water supply, would you be indifferent to it just like you are with the UN?

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Axulus, if some tourists introduced some nasty disease organism, would you denounce tourism with the fervor that you denounce the UN?

Well, if the tourists went to Haiti for the purpose of helping the people there out and they ended up killing a lot more of the Haitian people than they helped out due to extreme negligence on their part, then those tourists should be denounced rather harshly.

 

[untermensche]

What does any of this have to do with the UN's role in these 10,000 deaths and 800,000 illnesses?

What do you not understand about poverty and the spread of Cholera as a result?

 

[laughing dog]

The UN facility that was set up leaked untreated sewage into the local water sources. That is negligance regardless of whether such cholera epidemic could've been forseen by such event.

The issue of negligence would depend on the cause of the leak.

 

[bigfield]

Since Cholera is now endemic in Haiti, the way to eliminate it from the island is to improve the sanitation infrastructure across the country.

Can the UN do such a project?

 

[dismal]

Axulus, if some tourists introduced some nasty disease organism, would you denounce tourism with the fervor that you denounce the UN?

Hey look, better write a letter to the New York Times (and various human rights groups), they seem to be picking on the UN too:

It shouldn’t have taken five years and a scathing report by an internal human rights watchdog for the United Nations to acknowledge that it bears responsibility for the cholera epidemic in Haiti sparked by its peacekeepers deployed after the 2010 earthquake.

And yet, the yearslong effort to dodge accountability in an emblematic case of institutional failure was predictable. A string of recent scandals has shown that the United Nations has been unwilling to police itself, learn from its errors, correct course and make amends.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/22/o...y-at-the-united-nations.html?ref=opinion&_r=1