Most affected by the disease remains the Department of Artibonite, where it was recorded the first outbreak of cholera. The share of this region accounts for more than a thousand dead. In the western department of Haiti, which includes the capital, Port-au-Prince, the disease killed 945 people. In the Dominican Republic, which has a land border with Haiti, the victims of cholera were 14 people. According to a recent UN report, to the emergence of cholera in Haiti resulted in pollution of a tributary of the Artibonite South Asian strain of the type of infection that occurred as a result of human activity. It is noteworthy that even in the past year, a French epidemiologist Rene Perroud put forward its own version, in which the spread of cholera caused sewage discharge into the river from the camp Mirebalais Nepalese battalion of the UN Mission, ITAR-TASS.
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