A recent Slate article by Jonathan Katz talks about a map that is displayed at the CDC – as well as the heavy implications of this map. Despite genomic evidence that the UN peacekeepers were the source of cholera in earthquake-devastated Haiti, the CDC and the UN continue to avoid accountability. UN peacekeepers from Nepal failed to set up …
Going through the list of Microbiology Blogs we have curated at microBEnet and going to try to feature one of them every day or so. And just going to do this in semi-alphabetic order. Today’s blog: Crof’s H5N1 Author: Crawford Kilian Tagline/Summary: “Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large …
Some new publications were just released by the CDC’s Journal Emerging Infectious Diseases relating to the cholera epidemic in Haiti. Understanding the Cholera Epidemic, Haiti Implications of the Introduction of Cholera to Haiti Vibrio cholerae in Traveler from Haiti to Canada I note I wrote about this recently in regard to the UN report discussing …
A UN panel has issued a recent report on the cholera outbreak in Haiti. The report reviews genetic, genomic, epidemiological and other studies that relate to the origins of the cholera outbreak. The conclusion is a bit disconcerting – most likely the outbreak was introduced by UN personnel and was related to poor construction of …