Mexico CITY - medical authorities in Haiti defended Tuesday not to concentrate its decision in search of the origins of a cholera-outbreak which killed, more than 1,000 people and stoked violent demonstrations against the United Nations peacekeeping forces, which many people blamed for the introduction of the disease.
Protests, began the Monday and wore their wrath on the peacekeeping forces in Tuesday in some places, two people dead as protesters, a 12,000 strong, multinational force, which in Haiti in 2004 in response to political conflict arrived addressed.
A spokesman for the UN force said the protesters were with the growing cholera epidemic as an excuse to push out troops and the country before the Nov.28 Presidential election to destabilize.
"" These are not real demonstrations", said the spokesman, Vincenzo Pugliese.""Are spoilers to create use paid to chaos."United Nations health workers said the demonstrations were the treatment of victims in Cap Haïtien, hinder, where supplies are running low and the death rate is high.
Some see the peacekeeping forces occupying forces as hardliners, while others you support out of concern that are the national police unable to maintain order.
Tensions over the power have increased after the cholera root as from South Asia identified health officials and found that the bacteria that lives in feces, had contaminated River where Nepalese troops arrived, began in October shortly before the outbreak.
Reporter in Haiti found signs of poor sanitation in the camp, but the UN mission has steadfastly refused, that the troops are to blame, and has said that repeated tests failed cholera, these mesh. South Asia is home to many cholera strains.
Scientists have said that based on initial testing of its genetic traits seems that load the cholera in contaminated food, Haiti were placed water or in an individual.Before this, cholera in Haiti had documented at least in the last century.
And not the disease to the troops who said World Health Organisation (WHO) has joined during the tests, it could not exclude werden.Eine of full investigation's outbreak origin has not been performed.
"We are focused on treatment of people getting a handle on this and rescue of life," said Daniel B. Epstein, a spokesman for the Pan American Health Organization, the branch of the WHO in Haiti active.
Dr. Jordan Tappero, an epidemiologist with the centers for disease control and prevention, leading medical investigator in Haiti, said U.S. phone it would unlikely that scientists pinpoint where the outbreak began and he don't think mounting an all-out effort to find the answer was "Is a good use of resources."
Outside epidemiologists said it was agreed that the treatment of victims was more important to study the bacteria and where it came from understanding how disease travels and mutates to extend but you important, generally about.
Studying the genetics of the root "would give a better idea where it came from", said Dr. David bag, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of public health the cholera outbreak, studied "but I agree, it is more important, disease prevention and control should killing es.Es not be."
The Haitian Government said on Tuesday that the death of toll 1.034 16,799 people for cholera or symptoms of the disease had reached treated.
Health officials in the Dominican Republic Tuesday said that you had found the first confirmed case of cholera in a Haitian citizens who returned recently from his home, the associated press reported.
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