Sentences with phrase «nepalese peacekeepers»

Epidemiological and DNA studies have shown that the outbreak was caused by the «El Tor» strain of Vibrio cholerae bacteria probably carried by Nepalese peacekeepers.

This is because of a vaccine stockpile set up in response to the cholera that struck Haiti after an earthquake in 2010 — cholera carried there, ironically, by Nepalese peacekeepers.