For all its challenges, Haiti was free of cholera for about a century before a United Nations peacekeeping force arrived from Nepal in October 2010.
Although there had been an outbreak of cholera in Nepal shortly before the troops left for Haiti, the United Nations mission failed to appropriately screen the peacekeepers for the disease.
This error was compounded by the United Nations’ failure to provide the peacekeeping mission adequate sanitation facilities at their base in the
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