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Even with the country's problems in sanitation and its broken sanitation, we never had this disease,\" said Joceline Brunache Pierre-Louis, a doctor with the Haitian Health Ministry. \u003cbr/\u003eAt a treatment centre overseen by Doctors Without Borders in Port au Prince, dozens of patients suffering from cholera receive care. \u003cbr/\u003eThere are no hard numbers on the number of people who are currently sick. \u003cbr/\u003eBut Haitian health officials say more than 7,300 people have died and more than 574-thousand others have fallen ill since the 2010 outbreak.\u003cbr/\u003eThe new report argues that a \"definitive statement\" about the source of the outbreak cannot yet be made, and calls for the creation of a public database to study cholera strains.\u003cbr/\u003eIt states that a \"perfect storm\" of environmental circumstances in 2010 enabled the bacteria to appear, as the impoverished country was hit by a massive earthquake, a hurricane and a very hot summer.\u003cbr/\u003eThe disease came about soon after the quake.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It pops out of nowhere, and now you have it in epidemic levels. So obviously just that alone is interesting enough to say OK, we need to study this,\" said Chad Weber, a research assistant at the University of Florida Emerging Pathogen Institute.\u003cbr/\u003eWeber is working at the Public Health Laboratory in Gressier, trying to determine the current status of the epidemic in that area. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said the researchers were \"looking at the environment, we are looking at stool samples, we're looking at the built environments, roadways and buildings where waters sources are, and using all that to meld together a comprehensive view of what's going on with cholera.\" \u003cbr/\u003eCholera, whose symptoms consist of rapid dehydration and vomiting, is spread through water or food contaminated by the bacterium - easily in Haiti because the country lacks a proper sewage and sanitation system.\u003cbr/\u003eIn November 2010, a week of anti-UN riots broke out when suspicions were first raised that the Nepalese UN peacekeepers had brought the disease with them to the island. \u003cbr/\u003eUN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon ordered an investigation and the resulting report revealed that there was a \"perfect match\" between cholera strains found in Haiti and Nepal, but it avoided pinning blame. \u003cbr/\u003eThe UN is at the centre of a legal complaint even though it enjoys immunity in Haiti and other countries because of a Status of Forces Agreement. \u003cbr/\u003eThe outcome could change the way the UN missions can be held legally accountable.\u003cbr/\u003eThe new report's findings have met plenty of scientific resistance. \u003cbr/\u003eMany scientists say the second cholera strain cited by the report was unlikely to have caused the outbreak because it's nontoxic, naturally inhabits bodies of water around the world and is unlikely to trigger epidemics. \u003cbr/\u003eUnlike the strain that sickened so many Haitians, this one is believed to cause only mild diarrhoea and isn't life-threatening.\u003cbr/\u003ePort au Prince - Recent\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of people and traffic on road filled with standing water and potholes, close to open-air market \u003cbr/\u003e2. Close of outdoor sign reading (French) \"Doctors Without Borders Saint Tretman Cholera Centre\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close of poster reading (French) \"Doctors Without Borders. Diseases and Epidemics.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid of woman bathing young girl at the cholera treatment centre\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close of another young girl receiving treatment at cholera centre; tilt up to intravenous drip \u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of patients at cholera treatment centre\u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of Joceline Brunache Pierre-Louis, official at Haitian Health Ministry at her desk \u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Joceline Brunache Pierre-Louis, Official at Haitian Health Ministry:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's clear that the bacterium (for cholera) wasn't in this country: we never had any cases. Even with the country's problems in sanitation and its broken sanitation, we never had this disease.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid of man suffering from cholera lying in bed at cholera treatment centre\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close of the man's hand attached to drip\u003cbr/\u003eGressier - Recent \u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid of sign outside the Public Health Laboratory \u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of laboratory\u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid of Chad Weber, Field and Lab Research Assistant at the University of Florida Emerging Pathogen Institute, in lab\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Chad Weber, Field and Lab Research Assistant at the University of Florida Emerging Pathogen Institute:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It pops out of nowhere, and now you have it in epidemic levels. So obviously just that alone is interesting enough to say OK, we need to study this.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Various of plates on which bacteria are growing\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (English) Chad Weber, University of Florida Emerging Pathogen Institute:\u003cbr/\u003e\"So it's definitely comprehensive, like we're looking at the environment, we are looking at stool samples, we're looking at the built environments, roadways and buildings where waters sources are, and using all that to meld together a comprehensive view of what's going on with cholera, at least in Gressier.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Port Au Prince - 18 November 2010\u003cbr/\u003e17. Demonstrator holding banner reading (Creole) \"Long live Haiti without the MINUSTAH (United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti) and without imported cholera\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Mid of demonstrators burning a coffin representing Presidential Candidate Jude Celestin \u003cbr/\u003e19. Various of anti-MINUSTAH demonstrators running down street past Haiti's Government Palace \u003cbr/\u003e20. 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