Fischer said he couldn't confirm the information, but said a group of UN officials will meet with the French epidemiologist to discuss his methodology and finding.
In another widely reported development, Claes Hammar, the Swedish ambassador to the Caribbean told the Swedish press that the contagion came from Nepalese camp, but refuses to name the US official allegedly who told him this.
"I consider my source to be a reliable one. It is a US official, but I cannot say who", he said on Wednesday by phone to Helsingin Sanomat. Hammar said that the tests taken by the US official were at a camp of "Nepalese UN workers."
Meanwhile, The UN in Haiti (MINUSTAH) continues to refuse to release "independent tests" it conducted in the Dominican Republic that MINUSTAH says show no contagion. This is strange. It is similar to the accused criminal who says he has an alibi, but refuses to produce it. A release of the test results could exonerate--or condemn.
The Haitian people cannot hold out much longer for the truth, and what is even more frustrating is that media is still helping the United Nations to blame the Haitians for their own misery. We have seen this before. The US has been strangely absent from coverage of the beginnings of the cholera epidemic. The AP was there, as was the BBC and, of course, AlJazeera. Now that the numbers are getting higher, world and US media are suddenly interested.
Instead of a vigorous search for the reasons why this epidemic is not being contained in a country that is a two-hour flight from the US, or putting pressure on the UN to tell the truth, media is resorting to heinous images of disaster porn to gin up readership and ratings.
There are several images of a naked Haitian woman, lying defenseless, abandoned and graphically exposed on a street. The photographer should be censured and banned from Haiti. This is not journalism. It is pornography. This woman is someone's daughter, wife, mother, or sister. Where is our humanity?
This photographer and media that promotes this are engaged in societal abuse.
Perhaps this is not surprising given the climate of complete disregard for truth that has infested coverage of this epidemic as well as our propensity to treat Haitians as children, unable to handle the truth. Imagine if this happened in the United Sates. Would we tolerate this kind of denial and abuse?
Now that the expected social unrest, fueled by fear and anger, is beginning to materialize, the United Nations is in full denial mode and blaming riots in the Cap Haitien area on "political motivations."
Denials continue, in spite of a Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN report) which makes a convincing argument for Haiti's case against the UN for importing the cholera epidemic, as well as an
AP report that solidifies the argument.
The UN has circled the wagons.
As surely as a rapist blames its victim, the United Nations has perfected the art of plausible denial. And in case the reader is not aware, the UN has been complicit in rape and murder in Haiti, also.
The UN blaming "civil unrest" that is "politically motivated" is as recent as 2006 when the mis-named United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) denied 30 people were killed by UN forces in Cite Soleil.
In response to the criticism by human rights organizations that denounced those killings, MINUSTAH justified its actions by claiming that it was combating gangs in Cite Soleil. However, the images shot by H.I.P. show that United Nations troops shot unarmed civilians from helicopters. Inter Press Service, which covered the conditions in the area immediately following the attack, reported finding high-caliber bullet holes in many homes.
You can still see the bullet riddled homes and buildings.
And then there are the rapes that the UN denied in 2006, but which were documented by human rights watch groups and others.
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