Now MINUSTAH tells us yesterday it has taken samples 3 times, and all 3 have been found negative. I don’t doubt MINUSTAH has taken the samples, because it would be in their self-interest to do so, and I don’t think there is a really compelling reason for them to lie about the results, because it’s the sort of lie which can easily be disproved. You mileage may vary, of course.

I do think, however, that its the old story of epidemics provoking profound social dislocation and disorientation, and the search for scapegoats is as long as the history of the disease itself. In the 19th century loose morals and worldliness were blamed for cholera. Today, when belief in supernatural causes is somewhat attenuated, we blame Nepalese soldiers.

Before and after the January 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti, the country was cholera-free — it never appeared on the global list of countries contaminated by cholera. That all changed in mid-October this year when a cholera outbreak was registered in the lower Central Plateau immediately giving rise to many theories on the origin of the outbreak. Recent developments pinpoint the source to the Nepalese base of United Nations Mission (MINUSTAH) in Haiti. For more click here: http://solutionshaiti.blogspot.com/2010/11/cholera-in-haiti-is-united-nations.html