While the United Nations touted its efforts in Haiti aimed at ending the world’s worst modern cholera epidemic -- a calamity many experts assert the U.N. itself caused -- U.N. peacekeepers were ...

In 2010, a devastating cholera outbreak infected hundreds of thousands in Haiti just months after a severe earthquake left more than 100,000 dead. Prior to the outbreak, there were no reported ...

In 2010, months after Haiti's devastating quake, a catastrophic cholera epidemic began. Scientists traced the outbreak to U.N. peacekeepers. Nearly six years later, the U.N. has acknowledged a role.

In 2010, a cholera outbreak in Haiti, which was traced back to sewage negligently released from a United Nations peacekeepers base into a river near the town of Mirebalais, caused about 9,800 ...

UN troops caused Haiti's last cholera epidemic . The massive 2010 outbreak began after a deadly earthquake in January of that year that was estimated to have killed more than 300,000 people.

United Nations Secretary Ban Ki-moon has ended—sort of-- six years of UN stonewalling over Haiti’s mammoth cholera epidemic with a weak apology that the world organization “simply did not do ...

Dozens more cases of cholera have been diagnosed in Haiti, ... That outbreak ultimately reached 800,000 cases and claimed at least 10,000 lives.

Haiti’s cholera epidemic, he said, was among the incidents that brought deep shame within the ranks. “For many, nothing comes close to the ethical morass of our response on Haiti cholera ...

If Haiti's cholera outbreak continues to grow, it's unlikely it would spread beyond the country's borders given the usual transmission route through contaminated water and food, noted infectious ...

A new outbreak of cholera anywhere merits our attention. Cholera was visited on the people of Haiti for the first time in 2010, months after the country had weathered a devastating earthquake.