Disease in the New

Disease in the News

Pamela Johnson

HCS 245

April 19, 2011

Ramona Mulleins

This article is about people in Haiti blaming the United Nation peacekeeper troop from Nepal bringing cholera outbreak. Protest in Haiti left two people dead as demonstrator directed their angry at peacekeeper troop. Nepal had an outbreak in August 2010 from cholera strain is now in Haiti. 12,000 multinational forces arrived in Haiti 2004 in response to political conflict (Archibold, November 2010). The protest was using escalating the cholera epidemic as excuse to push troop out of the country before the November 28, 2010 presidential election. The United Nation health worker said demonstration hampering the treatment of victim in Cape Haitian, where supplies are running low and death rate is high (Archibold, November2010). Some Haitian views peacemaker as enemy whereas other support them out of concern that the national police unable to maintain order. When health official identified cholera strain coming from South Asia and found that the bacteria that live in feces that contaminated a river where Nepalese troops had arrived in October 2010 shortly before the outbreak began. United Nation mission denied that the troop is to blame. They ran test that failed to link the cholera to the troop. Scientist initial test of it genetic traits, cholera strains brought to Haiti in contaminated food, water, or carried individual. Test had not linked the disease to the troop World Health Organization (WHO) could not rule it out. An inquiry of the outbreak origin has not been undertaken. Daniel B. Epstein of Pan American Health Organization a branch of World Health Organization operation in Haiti said “We are focus on treating people and saving lives.” Health official in the Dominican Republic found the first confirmed case of Cholera. All agree the United States is not risk because most American has toilet and chlorinated tap water. Even though one person who traveled to Haiti fell ill,...