The United Nations acknowledged on Thursday that it played a role in the 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak that has killed nearly 10,000 Haitians and infected more than 770,000.
[...] US courts have repeatedly rejected complaints filed by the families of cholera victims in New York, where the UN is headquartered, due to the world body's immunity.
A UN official quoted by the AFP news agency as saying that "the UN legal position has not changed".
Cholera, which is transmitted through contaminated drinking water and causes acute diarrhoea, is a major challenge in a country with poor sanitary conditions.
According to the UN, Some 72 percent of Haitians have no toilets at home and 42 percent still lack access to drinking water.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/admits-role-deadly-haiti-cholera-outbreak-160819064248187.html
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 20 2016, @06:00PM
> I wouldn't go so far as to say they caused the outbreak but they certainly were the source of the original infection.
Did you really think that the kind of pedantic hair-splitting worthy of wonky_monkey was useful in any way? Nobody thought the UN bio-engineered a cholera microbe and released it on the island.