"Compelling new scientific evidence suggests United Nations peacekeepers have carried a virulent strain of cholera -- a superbug -- into the Americas for the first time."

"The vicious form of cholera has already killed 7,000 people in Haiti, where it surfaced in a remote village in October 2010."

"Leading researchers from Harvard Medical School and elsewhere told ABC News that, despite UN denials, there is now a mountain of evidence suggesting the strain originated in Nepal, and was carried to Haiti by Nepalese soldiers who came to Haiti to serve as UN peacekeepers after the earthquake that ravaged the country on 1/12/2010 ..."

"Haiti had never seen a case of cholera until the arrival of the peacekeepers, who allegedly failed to maintain sanitary conditions at their base."

"What scares me is that the strain from South Asia has been recognized as more virulent, more capable of causing severe disease, and more transmissible," said John Mekalanos, who chairs the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School. "These strains are nasty. So far there has been no secondary outbreak. But Haiti now represents a foothold for a particularly dangerous variety of this deadly disease."

"More than 500,000 Haitians have been infected, and Mekalanos said a handful of victims who contracted cholera in Haiti have now turned up in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, and in Boston, Miami and New York, but only in isolated cases."

What you need to know:

• This is a hot potato subject that the United Nations is naturally ducking. More than half a million have been infected, thousands dead. The liability and restitution claims are beginning to take shape.
• The UN says there is no way to be conclusive as to how cholera was introduced into this hemisphere. Really?

  "ABC News has interviewed several top scientists involved in researching the origins of the cholera outbreak, and each expressed little doubt that the UN troop was responsible. The reason: A genetic analysis of the strain found in Haiti matches identically the one involved in an outbreak in Nepal in August and September of 2010; The Nepalese peacekeeping troops deployed for Haiti at precisely that time; Two weeks before the outbreak, Haitians had reported sanitary breakdowns at the Nepalese encampment set along a tributary to the Artibonite River, about 60 miles north of the capital Port Au Prince. The next month, the earliest cases of cholera surfaced in the same remote area, from Haitians who had been drinking and bathing in the river."

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Saudi Arabia on Nuclear Watch ?
January 18, 2012

Saudi Arabia, home to some of the most prolific oil fields in the world, is concerned about their growing dependence on oil and gas? This is about as absurd as Iran claiming their nuclear program is for peaceful energy related purposes when they are also a major oil and natural gas producing nation.

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