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Medical authorities in Haiti defended their decision Tuesday not to focus on finding the origins of a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 1,000 people and stoked violent demonstrations against United Nations peacekeepers, whom many people blame for introducing the disease.
A spokesman for the U.N. force said the protesters were using the escalating cholera epidemic as an excuse to push the troops out and destabilize the country before the Nov. 28 presidential election.
Denver Post wire services
