Saturday, January 10, 2015 | 5:17 PM
NEW YORK (CMC) – A United States judge has ruled that the United Nations is immune from a law suit seeking compensation for victims of the deadly cholera outbreak that left more than 8,000 people dead in Haiti.
The lawsuit had been filed by human rights groups and others, contending that the UN hadn’t screened the peacekeepers from Nepal for the disease that also sickened more than 700,000 since the first case was detected in October 2010.
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UN immune from lawsuit in Haiti cholera outbreak
