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DNA sequencing traces Haiti cholera epidemic to South Asia

The strain of cholera bacterium responsible for the epidemic currently raging in Haiti came from South Asia, and was most likely carried to Haiti by an infected human or some form of human activity, researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine today.

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