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Wide of area were Nepalese peacekeeping base is located at Mirebalais 2. Close up of water flowing on river located next to base 3. Pan right from river to side of base 4. Other side of base where waste was allegedly being dumped onto...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide of area were Nepalese peacekeeping base is located at Mirebalais \u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up of water flowing on river located next to base \u003cbr/\u003e3. Pan right from river to side of base \u003cbr/\u003e4. Other side of base where waste was allegedly being dumped onto nearby river \u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of exterior of Nepalese UN base \u003cbr/\u003e6. Close up of banner placed at main gate reading (English) \"Nepalese Battalion Minustah Haiti \"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of Nepalese soldiers in base\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid of soldiers\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Eddy Seide, neighbour: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Many people said it is the human waste or the water coming from the base that goes to the river, there should be people sick around, but as of now we don't have any reports of people sick in here.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Tanker truck from contractor Sanco Enterprises S.A taking waste out of base \u003cbr/\u003e11. Sanco staff with faces covered with surgical masks dumping waste on authorised waste pits \u003cbr/\u003e12. Pan from Sanco truck throwing waste to liquid on falling in pit \u003cbr/\u003e13. Close rear of truck throwing waste \u003cbr/\u003e14. Zoom out from close of Sanco worker spreading disinfectant on top of pit after dumping waste to wide\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Jean-Paul Chery, neighbour \u003cbr/\u003e\"The water is no good at all. You shouldn't wash in it, (talking about nearby river)\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various of tanker truck arriving at base \u003cbr/\u003e17. Close banner outside base reading Nepbatt 1 Mirebalais \u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide interior base \u003cbr/\u003e19. Zoom from close of UN peacekeeping soldier inside base to medium of him inside check point\u003cbr/\u003eUN investigators took samples of foul-smelling waste trickling behind a Nepalese peacekeeping base toward an infected river system on Wednesday, following persistent accusations that excrement from the newly arrived unit caused the cholera epidemic that has sickened more than 4,000 people in the earthquake-ravaged nation.\u003cbr/\u003eA military team was testing for cholera, a mission spokesman said, the first public acknowledgment that the 12,000-member force is directly investigating allegations its base played a role in the outbreak.\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile the epidemic continued to spread, with cases confirmed in two new departments in Haiti's north and northeast, said UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs spokeswoman Imogen Wall. At least 303 people have died and 4,722 been hospitalised.\u003cbr/\u003eInternational aid workers and the United Nations are focusing their efforts on stemming the spread of the outbreak, which was first noted on October 20. \u003cbr/\u003eBut Haitians are increasingly turning their attention to its origins: How did a disease which has not been seen in Haiti since the early 20th Century suddenly erupt in the countryside?\u003cbr/\u003eThe mission strongly denies its base was a cause of the infection. \u003cbr/\u003eThe mission spokesman said civilian engineers collected samples from the base on Friday which tested negative for cholera and the mission's military force commander ordered the additional tests to confirm. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said no members of the Nepalese battalion, whose current members arrived in early October for a six-month rotation, have the disease.\u003cbr/\u003eThe unit's commander declined to comment.\u003cbr/\u003eLocal politicians including a powerful senator and the mayor of Mirebalais are pointing the finger at the Nepalese peacekeeping base, which is perched above a source of the Meille River, a tributary to the Artibonite River on Haiti's central plateau. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Artibonite River has been the source of most infections, which remain concentrated in the rural area surrounding it - mostly down river from the mouth of the Meille.\u003cbr/\u003eCholera is pandemic in much of the world but almost unheard of in the Western Hemisphere. It is endemic to Nepal, which suffered outbreaks this summer. \u003cbr/\u003eA recent article in the Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases about outbreaks in 2008-09 said the strain found by researchers was \"Vibrio cholerae O1 Ogawa biotype El Tor.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThat is the same strain that has been identified in Haiti, epidemiologist Eric Mintz of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the AP. \u003cbr/\u003eBut he cautioned that strain is common and description too general to be a \"smoking gun\" that would identify the strain's country of origin.\u003cbr/\u003eThe CDC is not directly investigating the base, spokesman David Daigle said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe UN issued a statement on Tuesday defending the base. \u003cbr/\u003eIt said the Nepalese unit there uses seven sealed septic tanks built to US Environmental Protection Agency standards, emptied every week by a private company to a landfill site a safe 820 feet (250 meters) from the river.\u003cbr/\u003eBut those are not the conditions AP found on Wednesday.\u003cbr/\u003eA buried septic tank inside the fence was overflowing and the stench of excrement wafted in the air. Broken pipes jutting out from the back spewed liquid. \u003cbr/\u003eOne, positioned directly behind latrines, poured out a reeking black flow from frayed plastic pipe which dribbled down to the river where people were bathing.\u003cbr/\u003eThe landfill sites, across the street, are a series of open pits uphill from family homes. Ducks swim and pigs wallow in pools of runoff. \u003cbr/\u003eThe pits abut a steep slope which heads straight down to the river, with visible signs where water has flowed during recent heavy rains.\u003cbr/\u003eThe people who live nearby said both the on-base septic tank and the pits constantly overflow into the babbling stream where they bathe, drink and wash clothes.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The water is no good at all. You shouldn't wash in it,\" said Jean-Paul Chery, a sand miner who lives near the human-waste pits with his wife and five children.\u003cbr/\u003eMirebalais Mayor Laguerre Lochard said he had told Nepalese officers not to place the landfill sites in that location but never received feedback from peacekeeping headquarters in Port-au-Prince.\u003cbr/\u003eThe mission spokesman denied that the reeking black flows from the base were human waste, saying that the only liquid investigators was testing came from kitchens and showers. He said the pipes had only been exposed for the tests, though he could not explain why the liquid inside them was allowed to flow toward the river.\u003cbr/\u003eThe samples were collected in mid-morning by uniformed military personnel, who scooped black liquid into clear jars with UN sky-blue lids. \u003cbr/\u003eAbout a half hour later, as AP and Al Jazeera journalists stood by, the Nepalese troops began hacking around the septic tank with pickaxes and covered the exposed pipe jutting from behind the fence, but did not plug it.\u003cbr/\u003eThen tanker trucks from the contractor, Sanco Enterprises S.A., arrived to drain the septic tank and dump their contents across the street in the waste pits. As the septic tank drained, the flows behind the base stopped.\u003cbr/\u003eThe waste company's CEO, Marguerite Jean-Louis, accompanied the trucks in an air-conditioned white pickup truck. 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