Cholera in Haiti: An epidemic waiting to happen

History News Network: (Myron Echenberg, Professor Emeritus of History at McGill and the author of "Africa in the Time of Cholera: A History of Pandemics from 1815 to the Present"): "…The ongoing, and predictable, disaster in Haiti follows similar massive outbreaks in Peru in 1991, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1994, in South Africa in 2000, and in Zimbabwe in 2008..."