UN could have prevented Haiti cholera epidemic with $2,000 health kit – study

Researchers find screening tests and antibiotics could have warded off illness, which has taken thousands of lives and will cost more than $2bn to eradicateThe devastating Haiti cholera epidemic that has claimed thousands of lives and will cost more than $2bn to eradicate could have been prevented if the United Nations had used a basic health kit for a total of less than $2,000, scientists have found.A team of Yale epidemiologists and lawyers has looked at how the cholera bacterium was introduce