Scientists with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have Haitian cholera bacteria under their microscopes, and are looking for molecular "fingerprints" that might tell them where the bug came from.
--by Richard Knox
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Scientists with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have Haitian cholera bacteria under their microscopes, and are looking for molecular "fingerprints" that might tell them where the bug came from.
--by Richard Knox
The origins of the strain became a hot issue in Haiti this week after the mayor of Mirebalais, a town in the middle of the outbreak, suggested that Nepalese soldiers brought it from their homeland to a nearby United Nations peacekeeping camp.
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