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FNAKC t1_j68pm25 wrote

Reply to comment by jB_real in TIL cholera was reintroduced to Haiti after a century by UN peacekeepers responding to the 2010 earthquake. The resulting outbreak was the worst on record, killing 10,000 and infecting 820,000. by theworkinglad

"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 deaths and over 820,000 infections."

From https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/10/18/haiti-urgently-address-cholera-outbreak#:~:text=In%202010%2C%20a%20cholera%20outbreak,deaths%20and%20over%20820%2C000%20infections.

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