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: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Saturday August 20 2016, @06:04PM
This begs the question,
Oh, no, not again.
http://begthequestion.info/ [begthequestion.info]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question [wikipedia.org]
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/begs-the-question [quickanddirtytips.com]
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/begs.html [wsu.edu]
(last one points out that this will cause irritation among traditionalists.)