The UN has appointed four experts to investigate the source of the cholera epidemic in Haiti, attributed by experts to peacekeepers from Nepal, the organization announced Thursday. "Determining the cause of cholera is important for both the UN and the Haitian people," said the UN chief, Ban Ki-moon said in a statement."The panel will seek to determine the source of the cholera epidemic of 2010 in Haiti. It will review all information and data available to travel to Haiti to conduct its investigation in the field," adds document. "The panel will act quite independently of the UN and have access to all records, data, locations and staff it will need.
It will make a written report of its findings to the Secretary General and the Government of "Haiti," it added. The UN announced in December that it had appointed an international panel of experts to investigate the origin of cholera, which has 3,651 people since mid-October in the country, according to the results available Thursday on the site Ministry of Health of Haiti.
The expert group will be led by Mexico's Alejandro Cravioto, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh-based. The other three experts Claudio Lanata, Institute of Nutrition Survey of Peru, Daniele Lantagne, U.S. Harvard University, and Balakrish Nair, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases in India.
A French epidemiologist, said the camp of the Nepalese peacekeepers located in the center of Haiti was the source of the epidemic. Other experts said that the strain came from South Asia. In early November, part of the Haitian population had violently clashed with peacekeepers in the country, accusing them of importing the epidemic.
Mid-December, the head of peacekeeping forces of the UN peacekeeping Alain Le Roy, recalled that other experts attributed the outbreak to climatic conditions or felt she had been dormant for years.
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