Cholera is raging in Haiti, already devastated by the earthquake. Rumors are circulating, denied by the government, that it was imported by UN soldiers from Nepal, part of the earthquake relief effort. However, a study of the Haitian cholera genome, conducted by Matthew Waldor of Harvard University, shows that it is the V strain, very common in Nepal and South Asia, different from the one found in Peru, or the endemic strain closer to Haiti.
