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Events on Tuesday 19 October 2010 1
2010Haiti cholera outbreak beginsEpidemic follows the earthquakeA cholera epidemic broke out in Haiti ten months after the devastating earthquake, spread by contaminated water near a UN peacekeeping base on the Artibonite River. The outbreak eventually killed thousands and infected hundreds of thousands of people. It became one of the worst cholera epidemics of modern times.