The UN responsibility for the cholera outbreak in Haiti 2016, para. 13
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Haiti's first-ever cholera outbreak began in mid-October 2010. Many scholars have repeated the claim made by the independent panel of experts on the cholera outbreak in Haiti that this was the first time in 100 years that cholera had occurred in Haiti, but in fact there is no record of cholera ever having previously been in Haiti. As of 28 May 2016, United Nations figures had recorded 9,145 deaths from cholera and 779,212 persons infected. Scientific studies have also claimed that the actual mortality rate is almost certainly substantially higher than reported. Between January and April 2016, 150 new deaths occurred, an increase of 18 per cent over the same period in 2015.
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Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights