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Lawyers for the cholera victims and their families argued that the disease had not been found in Haiti for 150 years.

SEOUL - The South Korean health authorities said on Tuesday (Aug 23) that the country has confirmed the first case of cholera in 15 years in Gwangj

The United Nations has, at long last, accepted some responsibility that it played a part in a cholera epidemic that broke out in Haiti in 2010 and

Jung Ki-Suck, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, leaves after a news briefing at its headquarters in Cheongju, North Chung

SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has confirmed its first case of cholera in 15 years, local health authorities said Tuesday.

This week though, Farhan Haq, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, admitted that the world body had a "moral responsibility to t

In response to a 2011 cholera outbreak in Papua New Guinea, the Government of the Solomon Islands initiated a cholera prevention program which incl

It shouldn’t have taken five years and a scathing report by an internal human rights watchdog for the United Nations to acknowledge that it bears r

It is not enough that the United Nations is finally beginning to acknowledge its involvement in the lethal cholera epidemic in Haiti.

A day after the United Nations admitted that it helped spread cholera in Haiti, the organization also found that poor sanitation persisted in its m

UPDATE (August 2016): When we first published this story in July 2015, some people claimed that the United Nations was responsible for bringing cho

The Ebola epidemic killed 11,300 people in West Africa, creating a panic last year in the United States and Europe.

The United Nations is now admitting for the first time that it was involved in introducing cholera to Haiti, and it had a greater responsibility to

NEW YORK, United States, Monday August 22, 2016 – The United Nations has finally acknowledged that it played a role in an outbreak of cholera in Ha

News of the attacks in South Sudan coincided with the UN’s admission - after six years of external and, increasingly, internal pressure - that its

The UN has finally acknowledged it played a role in an outbreak of cholera in Haiti in 2010 that has since killed about 10,000 people in the countr

Following the cholera outbreak, experts determined that its cause was a United Nations peacekeeping camp, which hosted activists from Nepal who car

A young man at a sports center converted into a Cholera Treatment Center in Cap-Haitian, Haiti in November 2010.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is working on a package that would provide "material assistance" to cholera victims in Haiti, his spokesman

In this project, Shah compared the situation in Haiti to another devastating cholera outbreak almost two centuries earlier- Manhattan in the summer

But in a reversal, the United Nations this week acknowledged it did play a role in starting a deadly epidemic that has cost more than 10,000 lives

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A US federal appeals court has upheld the United Nations’ immunity from a damage claim filed by human rights

This file photo taken on December 9, 2014 shows a cholera patient treated at the MSF ?Center for Emergency Care (MEdecins Sans Frontieres-Doctors W