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Already susceptible because of the poor living conditions faced within the region's poorest nation, made worse by the inaccessibility of clean water for drinking and cooking and unsafe practices for the disposal of waste, Haiti was a sitting duck to the Nepalese strain of the cholera virus, unleashed into the water supply by unsanitary practices at the UN base. Very little could be done as the death toll rose alarmingly. In 2011 alone, some 6,700 people were killed. Up to one year ago over half a million people had become infected.

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