Typhoom Hayain

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Let's hope the relief crew does a better job controlling cholera than the UN did in Haiti.

[Village Idiot]

They're going to have quite a struggle with that. Controlling cholera not only means clean water, but lots of iv equipment as well. Both are very difficult in those conditions, and really hard in those isolated areas. Water is a heavy thing, and they'll have a hell of a time transporting it.

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Todd, we have a carrier headed there that can produce 400K of water a day. What it can't do is move a lot of it, and I suspect they have the capacity to bottle none of it. Water is the long pole in any relief effort.

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That said, the cholera in Haiti was a result of poor sanitation on the part of the relief workers.

[Village Idiot]

Not arguing, but interested, Paul. Was it a result of being able to be sanitary in those conditions, or they didn't follow through with some sort of protocol?

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www.cnn.com/2013/10/09/world/americas/haiti-un-cholera-lawsuit/

Several scientific and medical investigators eventually concluded that one of the likely sources of the outbreak was sewage leaking from a U.N. base housing Nepalese peacekeepers. The base was perched above a tributary stream leading into the Artibonite River near the town of Meille.
"The way we understand disease transmission today, there is no other good explanation for how a (cholera) strain that was present only in the northeastern region of the Indian subcontinent traveled 9,000 miles to Haiti and happened to end up in a river next to a base with U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal, said Jonathan Katz, a former Associated Press reporter who was one of the first journalists to investigate the source of outbreak in 2010.