Cholera Outbreaks - Global

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Re: Cholera Outbreaks - Global

Source: Government of Angola
Date: 11 Nov 2006


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Lubango, 11/11 - At least sixty two new cholera cases were registered in the last 24 hours by Hu?la health authorities, in Lubango and Quipungo municipalities, killing one person.
The fact was revealed to ANGOP by the acting public health department chief, F`lix Janu rio, adding that from these cases, 61 occurred in Lubango, killing one person and one case in Quipungo district without claiming any live.
According to F`lix Janu rio, currently 102 patients are hospitalised in "Doutor Agostinho Neto" Central Hospital, while other 106 were discharged on the same period. Since the start of cholera outbreak in April, a total of 1,891 cases were registered, thus claiming 122 lives.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/...J?OpenDocument

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Re: Cholera sickens 32,000 Angolans, kills 1,200

Angola

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0606/334251.html
LISBON, Portugal (AP) - An outbreak of cholera has killed 1,576 people since February, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. As of May 31, the African country had reported a total of 41,475 cases in 13 of its 18 provinces.
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The overall fatality rate stood at 3.8 percent, far above the 1 percent the WHO considers average. Although current trends showed a decline in most provinces, a daily incidence of around 250-300 cases was still being reported, it said.

Cholera is transmitted through contaminated water and is linked to poor hygiene, overcrowding and inadequate sanitation. It can be treated easily, but is a major killer in developing countries.
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Angola's public infrastructure, including health care, crumbled during a two-decade civil war that ended in 2002.
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About a quarter of the 4 million people in Luanda, the capital, live in shantytowns.

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Re: Cholera - Zanzibar - (Indian Ocean)

Zanzibar

Hi, would you let me know the status of the cholera outbreak in Zanzibar. i expect to be there on 20th June. Thanks!

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Re: Cholera sickens 32,000 Angolans, kills 1,200

Angola

It is interesting that Angola has not announced any Bird Flu.

What is also concerning is that in 1918 the Spanish Flu presented like Cholera.

While I am not saying this outbreak is Bird Flu, it does open the possiblity that H5N1 cases could be intermixed with the Cholera outbreak and they would never been seen.


http://www.whale.to/v/spanish.html
There is evidence that the Spanish Flu did have hemorrhagic symptoms.
Vickie Menear, MD and homeopath, was doing some research on Flu for her
class at Hahnemann Homeopathic College, Albany, California, when she ran
into a great deal of literature that supports this possibility. I called
her and she said that if you had questions, she'd be happy too answer them.
Again, Email me and I'll give you her phone number.
In the meantime, let me quote some of her source material. If you
are interested in following up this new "lead" on the Spanish Flu epidemic,
this is a good place to start. Here are the references:

1. THE PLAGUE OF THE SPANISH LADY: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
by Richard Collier, Atheneum Publishing, New York, 1974

QUOTE:

Page 7:
"It began, undramatically, after a two-day incubation period, with a cough.
Next there was pain--behind the eyes, in the ears, in the lumbar region.
Soon a drowsy numbness invaded the body, and fervor set in; often the
temperature soared to 104 degrees F. The pulse was thready and unstable;
the victim's tongue was thickly coated...every mortal fiber ached
indescribably--the throat, the head, the naso-pharynx.."

Page 35:
"But which disease? All over the world, doctors were noting symptoms so at
variance with the spring epidemic --and with any known form of influenza
--that it might have been an unknown sickness...that each time a man so
much as stirred on his pillow, serous fluid poured from his mouth and
nostrils...a burning pain above the diaphragm...the frontal headache that
recalled Typhoid fever...painfully congested conjunctivae...coated tongues
with bright red tips...another maverick symptoms: what doctors term 'silent
lungs', an absence of breath so total he was convinced his stethoscope had
given out."

Page 37:
"...case after case of leucopenia--a kind of leukaemia in reverse, where
the white corpuscles of the blood are strangely reduced in numbers...lost
her sight within six days...gangrene of the sexual organs...afflicted by
diarrhoea so intense he endured twenty movements a day....On one factor, at
least, all doctors were agreed: only in Cholera did the collapse come so
suddenly that most victims could fix the precise moment when they fell...a
man staggering home at a run, handkerchief clapped to a bleeding nose--but
most often this killer-virus struck like a lightning-bolt."

Page 69:
"One moment she could see her face, mirrored opaquely in a bowl of water
that her mother held (she was having Epistaxis, nosebleed while in the
throes of the Spanish Flu). Next instant it had vanished, blotted from
view by the blood pouring from her mouth and nose....Dr. Hennewig arrived.
His verdict..."I have seen many such cases -- without the haemorrhage she
would not have recovered."

Page 69:
"Later, Germany's Public Health Administration was to report that in many
areas Epistaxis affected up to HALF of all influenza victims--often as much
as a pint of blood at a time."

Page 69:
"Major Charles Mix, of the Army Medical Corps, saw a greater significance.
Among doughboys at Camp Mills, New York, Mix noted interference with the
passage of blood from the heart's right ventricle to the lungs caused
enough damming back of venous blood 'to make possible nasal haemorrhage on
the slightest occasion'. Many were even then cyanotic, and some, despite
this haemorrhage, developed pneumonia..."

Page 220-221:
"....why should the sickness affect so many organs of the body normally
untouched?...most often the disease resembled encephalitis, with the
patient lapsing into a coma...a dilation of the heart but even of fatty
degeneration...a cough so intense that it ruptured the muscles of a
soldier's rectum...retention of urine...puffy faces and swollen ankles of
acute nephritis...the lungs were the organs most vitally affected...a
patient's face so contorted in death that even close friends couldn't
recognize him...and autopsy surgeons were encountering what one doctor
termed 'a pathological nightmare'; lungs up to six times their normal
weight, looking 'like melted red currant jelly.'"

2. EPIDEMIC AND PEACE, 1918 by Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., Greenwood Press,
Westport, CT, London, England

Page 4:
"The Surgeon General's office dispatched Colonel Welch to Devens (Army
base)...included in that group Colonel Victor C. Vaughan, ex-president of
the American Medical Association; Rufus Cole of the Rockefeller Institute;
and Simeon Walbach of the Harvard Medical School....(p.7)...Welch and his
colleagues...glanced in at the wards with their lines of cots and
prostrated soldiers, whose linens were often stained with bloody sputum and
the sudden nosebleeds that were symptoms of the Spanish Influenza..."

Page 7:
"In the open chest of a cadaver Welch saw the blue, swollen lungs of a
Spanish Influenza...Cause of death? That at least was clear: what in a
healthy man are the lightest parts of his body, the lungs, were in this
cadaver two sacks filled with a thin, bloody, frothy fluid.....The lungs of
those who died quickly, sometimes only 48 hours after the first ache and
cough, were such as he had never seen before...Their most conspicuous
feature was the enormous quantity of thin, bloody fluid. It oozed out of
their lungs sectioned for examination, and in the large air passages
leading to the throat it mixed with air in a bloody froth. As rigor mortis
set in, the fluid often poured from the nose and stained the body
wrappings."

Page 8:
"If there was anyone at Devens (the Army base) who could be depended upon
as a pillar of strength, it was this safe of Johns Hopkins. But when he
saw the wet lungs of influenza pneumonia in the fall of 1918, the pillar
trembled. "This must be some new kind of infection...or plague."

Dr. Menear has a list of other books and articles supporting the
hemorrhagic symptoms of the Spanish Flu. Should you want the list
published here, on OUTBREAK, I'll be happy to call her and get it sent to
you. She also has information on Crotalus Horridus being utilized as a
remedy during the pandemic.
I can only note that the symptoms of the 1918 "influenza" and the
Ebola of 1995, have marked similarities .
My percentages of homeopathic remedies used versus traditional
medicine (drugs) during 1918 influenza come from an article that appeared
in Homeopathy Today, January, 1990. It was the following and I'll quote:

"Dean W.A. Pearson of Philadelphia (Hahnemann College) collected 26,795
cases of (1918) influenza treated by homeopathic physicians with a
mortality rate of 1.05 percent while the average old school (traditional
medicine/drugs) mortality was 30 percent."

I'd like to credit Julian Winston, New Zealand, one of our foremost
homeopathic archives experts, and homeopathy@dungeon.com, in which this
article appeared.
This article was originally published by the Journal of the
American Institute for Homeopathy, May, 1921 and I'd like to share the
entire article and you can draw your own conclusions. This article was a
culling of information after the Spanish Flu epidemic had occurred. In it,
you will find mentioned other remedies, other than Crotalus Horridus, that
were used to save lives--Gelsemium, Eupatorium Perfoliatum, and Bryonia.
Unfortunately, I wasn't given the space at this website to share this
information with you before this.

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Re: Cholera sickens 32,000 Angolans, kills 1,200

Angola

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18508397.htm
GENEVA, May 18 (Reuters) - A cholera epidemic in Angola is spreading rapidly, with 546 new cases including 31 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.


The epidemic, which has killed nearly 1,300 people in three months, is infecting an average of about 600 people each day, about half of the cases reported in the capital Luanda, it said.


"In the last 24 hours, 546 new cases including 31 deaths have been reported," the United Nations agency said in an update on its site www.who.int which put the known death toll at 1,298.


The water-borne disease, which erupted in mid-February, has been found in 11 of 18 provinces of the country, emerging from decades of civil war which devastated water and sanitation systems, the WHO said.


Claire-Lise Chaignat, WHO's global cholera coordinator, told Reuters: "It is huge outbreak.


"But in certain provinces, in Luanda for example, we have the feeling that the first peak is behind us, there has been a decline in the number of cases," she said.


This was due to less rain, which spreads the disease, according to the Swiss expert. "But that doesn't mean it won't peak again," she added.
Cholera, an acute intestinal infection spread by contaminated water or food, causes vomiting and acute diarrhoea that can lead to dehydration and death within 24 hours if not treated swiftly with antibiotics and oral rehydration salts.


"With cholera you have to react very quickly, you can't wait two days for treatment, you will be dead by then. If you have to walk two days to a health care facility, with vomiting and watery diarrhoea, you probably can't make it," Chaignat said.


As the disease had not appeared in Angola for years, the population has only partial immunity, leaving people much more vulnerable, the expert said.


Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) charged on Wednesday that Angola -- sub-Saharan Africa's second largest oil producer behind Nigeria -- had responded slowly to the epidemic and should spend more of its wealth on saving victims' lives.


The medical charity also said that deaths from cholera were probably two to three times more than the reported toll.

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Re: Cholera sickens 32,000 Angolans, kills 1,200

Angola

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/...F?OpenDocument
Angola cholera outbreak defies control efforts

LUANDA, May 16 (Reuters) - Angola's cholera epidemic appears to have reached a deadly plateau, defying months of work by government and non-governmental organisations to quash the worst outbreak of the disease in more than a decade.
New figures released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday put the death toll since mid-February at 1,230 out of a total of 34,418 cases, with 588 new cases and 10 deaths reported in the last 24 hours alone.
Health experts said the outbreak was logging new victims at a steady -- if high -- rate, a signal the epidemic was still working its way through the vast southwest African nation, thanks in large part to a massive road construction programme that has made it easier for people, and the disease, to travel.
"There is a plateau for sure -- (but) this is stable," WHO analysts Jordi Sacristan told Reuters.
Officials say heavy rains have combined with Angola's multi-billion-dollar infrastructure improvement programme to create fertile ground for a cholera epidemic as travel routes reopen after the end of the country's civil war in 2002.
"Many people fled to Luanda (from rural regions) during the war looking for security. They created slums where the disease spreads fast. We need information, sanitation and education to reorganise," Angola deputy health minister Jose Van Dunem said.
"There's not enough drinking water in either quality or quantity," Van Dunem said.
Health workers said heavy rains had left large, stagnant puddles across Angola's many slums, increasing the danger of a disease which spreads primarily through overcrowding and poor hygiene.

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Re: Cholera sickens 20,000 Angolans, kills 941

Angola

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UNICEF: Cholera Epidemic Worsening in Angola
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top>By Lisa Schlein
Geneva
13 May 2006
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The United Nations Children's Fund says a cholera epidemic in Angola is worsening and more than a third of the victims are children under the age of five. Official figures put the number of cholera cases at more than 32,000, with nearly 1,200 deaths.
Even in the best of times, Angola has one of the highest under-five mortality rates in the world. UNICEF reports malaria kills 23 percent of Angola's children every year, followed by diarrheal diseases, which account for 18 percent of child deaths.
UNICEF spokesman Damien Personnaz says the current cholera epidemic is taking an especially heavy toll on children.
"UNICEF has done some preliminary estimates that 35 percent of the cholera victims are children below five years old, which means that basically we have a total number of 11,000 cases of cholera among children below five years old in Angola," he said.
Personnaz says children are particularly vulnerable to dehydration from diarrhea caused by cholera. He says if it is not treated promptly, they will die within two to three days of getting the disease, whereas, an adult can last four or five days without treatment.
The Angola government reports about 500 new cases every day. UNICEF says those numbers are expected to rise during the rainy season. It warns that well over 70,000 people could get infected by then if action to contain the outbreak is not sustained.
The epidemic started in February in the capital, Luanda. Cholera is largely due to poor sanitation, a shortage of safe drinking water, bad hygiene and overcrowding. Personnaz says Angola's 27-year-old civil war destroyed the country's water and sanitation facilities. He says few systems have been rebuilt. This has led to the rapid spread of the disease throughout the country.
"Now, basically, all the provinces are affected, and it can even cross the borders," he added. "To this extent, we can fear that the border with neighboring DRC, Congo and Zambia can also be a problem. So, we do hope that the disease will be contained by then."
UNICEF, the World Health Organization and private aid agencies such as Doctors Without Borders are working together to come to grips with this crisis. They have created special areas to isolate sick people so they don't spread the disease to the general public.
The groups are providing antibiotics, distributing oral rehydration salts and water purification tablets. They are also mounting information campaigns to teach people how to prevent cholera and what to do if someone gets the disease.

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Cholera - Angola - Benguela: Over 1,400 Cases of Cholera Registered

Angola

Angola: Benguela: Over 1,400 Cases of Cholera Registered
Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200604110377.html

Benguela

Around 132 people died of the cholera disease out of the 1,432 cases recorded in the southwestern Benguela Province since the outbreak in March 10, in this region.
According to a press communiqu&#233;,132 people died in the province in consequence of the cholera epidemics, informing that the Health Provincial Board notified 683 cases in the Catumbela commune, Lobito municipality, with 52 deaths, while in Benguela municipality were registered 507 cases and 61 deaths.
The press note also says the health services exhort the population to observe elementary preventive measures against the disease, as well as avoid the utilization of bathing-places in some areas.

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Cholera - Zanzibar - (Indian Ocean)

Zanzibar

Cholera has claimed a fifth victim in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Zanzibar, increasing the fatality to five with 40 people having fallen prey to the epidemic.

Zanzibar Health Minister Sultan Mohamed Mughery told local reporters on Sunday that the latest victim had died in the Unguja Southern Region.

The official attributed the spread of the disease to poor sanitation and polluted drinking water in the isles.

Of the infected, 30 are residents in the Pemba island while the rest are residents in the Unguja island. Pemba and Unguja are the two main islands of the archipelago.

Cholera, an epidemic disease usually erupting during the rainy season in tropical regions, is a water-born disease whose symptoms include vomiting and diarrhea that can cause death if not properly treated immediately.

Zanzibar experienced two severe eruptions of cholera in 1978 and 1999 when hundreds of people died of the epidemic.

http://english.people.com.cn/200604/03/eng20060403_255438.html

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Cholera outbreak - refugee camp in Thailand

Thailand

http://www.monnews-imna.com/web2006/april/6_2.htm

Number of people with cholera increase in Htam Him refugee camp

Banyol Kin
April 6, 2006

An international medical organization and camp committees are hardly assisting to decrease the number of people who suffer from cholera in Htam Him refugee camp located in the Ratchaburi Province of Thailand, said a Karen Journalist who visited in the camp recently.

According to the camp committees and medical workers, they announced that about 13 people in serious cases, 50 people were taken to the hospital and about 370 people suffer from cholera but nobody has died so far.

“They couldn't have stopping the outbreak yet, the patient numbers are still increasing,” said Keh Blut, a Journalist from Kwekalu Karen Newspaper said.

The camp committees announced and educated the refugees about the disease from a loud speaker in order to encourage them to drink hot water and not to eat ripe fruits to stop cholera in the camp.

A week ago just over 40 refugees were suffering, now the number has increased up to 370 people, “In the camp people live in very narrow and crowded places, so it is easy to spread virus one people to another”, said a member of the camp committee.

Htam Him refugee camp was established in 1997, for refugees who fled from southern part of Burma because of armed conflict and human rights violations. Majority of the refugees are Karen ethnicity and their homes are in various mountain ranges and river banks in Tenasserim Division of Burma. Other ethnic from Burma , Mon and Burman refugees from the UNHCR's ‘Person of Concerns – POC' also have taken refuge in the camp since March 2005.

According to Karen Refugee Committee in March 2005, about 1, 583 refugee families who live Htam Him camp rely on International Rescue Committee's support for the health care.

Cholera and Malaria are the main diseases in the camp but it had never been as worse as like now in the past, said the local refugees.

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Cholera outbreak - Cameroon

Cameroon

A cholera outbreak in Cameroon's economic capital of Douala has affected more than 200 people, killing five, a hospital official said.
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"At the moment it is only endemic, since we are registering only 16 new cases per week, below the threshold of 25 cases recorded during the 2004 epidemic," Dr Antoine Mouangue told AFP on Thursday.
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Mouangue said four districts of the city, located 250 kilometres (155 miles) west of the administrative capital Yaounde, were affected. Three more cases had occurred in the past few days 100 kilometres to the west, he added. — AFP
A cholera outbreak in Cameroon's economic capital of Douala has affected more than 200 people, killing five, a hospital official said.
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"At the moment it is only endemic, since we are registering only 16 new cases per week, below the threshold of 25 cases recorded during the 2004 epidemic," Dr Antoine Mouangue told AFP on Thursday.
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Mouangue said four districts of the city, located 250 kilometres (155 miles) west of the administrative capital Yaounde, were affected. Three more cases had occurred in the past few days 100 kilometres to the west, he added. — AFP
A cholera outbreak in Cameroon's economic capital of Douala has affected more than 200 people, killing five, a hospital official said.
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"At the moment it is only endemic, since we are registering only 16 new cases per week, below the threshold of 25 cases recorded during the 2004 epidemic," Dr Antoine Mouangue told AFP on Thursday.
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Mouangue said four districts of the city, located 250 kilometres (155 miles) west of the administrative capital Yaounde, were affected. Three more cases had occurred in the past few days 100 kilometres to the west, he added. — AFP

http://www.todayonline.com/articles/111374.asp

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Re: Rate of Cholera Cases increasing - Angola

Angola

Benguela, 04/06 - At least 52 people died of cholera in Angola`s central Benguela province, since the disease broke out in the region on March 10, out of the 599 cases recorded so far, the health services announced.

According to a press note delivered to Angop, the most hit districts are Lobito, Benguela and Ganda.

The source added a drop in cases of cholera has been recorded in the compounds of Gama and Praia Bebe (Benguela), thanks to increasing awareness campaigns and medical assistance.

Kwanza-Norte: 29 People Die Of Cholera

Ndalatando, 04/06 - At least 29 people died of cholera until Thursday, out of 490 cases recorded since March 20 in the main hospital of Angola`s northern Kuanza-Norte province, Angop learned.

Speaking to Angop, the director general of the hospital, Caetano Miguel, said that of the 36 patients that were admitted in the hospital last Wednesday six died.

He said that cases of cholera are on the rise in the region, adding that 51 patients were admitted on April 04, a figure that rose to 76 the following day.


I hope the case counts don't go exponential,

eladdie

[eladdie]

Re: Cholera Outbreaks

Malawi

Malawi records worst cholera outbreak in four years

LILONGWE, Mar 10, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Malawi has this year recorded the country's worst cholera outbreak since 2002 whereby 46 people have died from the recorded 3,852 cases, a senior government official told Xinhua Friday.

"Although we have cholera outbreaks every year during the rainy season, this year has been the worst compared to the past four years," said Habib Somanje, director of Preventive Health Services.

He said Malawi's commercial capital, Blantyre has been the worst hit with 1,035 reported cases and 12 deaths.

Somanje, however, said this year's cholera affected only five districts of the country's total 28 districts.

He attributed this year's increased cholera cases to Malawi's hunger crisis that severely affected close to five million people.

The director said people's personal hygiene has been seriously compromised through people's desperate attempts to find food and survive the hunger.

Copyright (c) 2006 Comtex News Network
Received by NewsEdge Insight: 03/10/2006 15:08:03

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/LTIO-6MRTBG?OpenDocument

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Re: Cholera Outbreaks

India

BANGALORE: Eleven persons with gastroenteritis were admitted to Isolation hospital on Saturday, bringing the number of cases in the past week-and-a-half to 128. But, no cases of cholera have been confirmed.

C.R. Thyagaraja, Director of Isolation hospital, said the samples of 37 patients, admitted to the hospital over the past two days, had been sent to the Public Health Institute for tests.

However, preliminary tests done at the hospital indicated that it was not cholera, he said.

Gastroenteritis is the passage of loose stools more frequently than what is normal for that individual. It is most often caused due to an infection by bacteria such as E. coli and Vibrio cholerae or by certain viruses and parasites such as Giardia. Symptoms of this condition include nausea, vomiting and abdominal cramps. Individuals with the illness are also likely to get dehydrated, which in turn may lead to light-headedness, weakness, confusion, kidney failure and even death.

Mr. Thyagaraja said the cases of gastroenteritis were not confined to a specific area but were sporadic. Cases were reported from over 20 parts of the city, including Kengeri, Sadanand Nagar, Old Byappanahalli, Akkipet, New Thippasandra and C.V. Raman Nagar.

He advised people against buying eatables sold by street vendors during the rainy season.

"After the showers, there is a good chance of water getting infected with bacteria or viruses. It is difficult to find out what water vendors use for cooking," he said. He suggested that people boil the water before drinking it.

Mr. Thyagaraja said people should wash the vegetables well during this season and also cook them well. Leftover food and that kept in the refrigerator for long should not be consumed, he added.

http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/12/stories/2006031220890300.htm

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Re: Cholera Outbreaks

India

8 cholera cases in City
DH News Service Bangalore:
Eight people have been tested positive for cholera in Bangalore. The results of the stool samples sent to the Government Public Health Institute after a breakout of Gastro Enteritis (GE) in the City was conveyed to the respective hospitals on Saturday.

Eight people have been tested positive for cholera in Bangalore. The results of the stool samples sent to the Government Public Health Institute after a breakout of Gastro Enteritis (GE) in the City was conveyed to the respective hospitals on Saturday. However, BMP Chief Health Officer Dr Thandava Murthy denied there are cases of cholera.

The three cases in the Epidemic Disease Hospital are two adults and one child from Seshadripuram, Srirampuram and Malleswaram. The five cases in the Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences include four children and one adult from Chamarajpet, Parvathipuram (near VV Puram) and surrounding areas.

Dr Murthy maintains there are only 10 cases of gastro reported from Siddarthanagar near Goodshed Road.

Unconfirmed reports said that 19-year-old Vijay Kumar from Vinayaknagar in the same Chickpet area died at home due to cholera and the entire family had left to North Karnataka, immediately after.

While BMP officials worked until 4 pm, armed with a battery of doctors and three ambulances, BWSSB personnel who were on leave on account of second Saturday, clarified there was no contamination in water supply in any of the areas in the City.

According to pharmabiz.com, a health portal, 1,678 contagious water-borne diseases have been reported in the City during the last one week.
In 2005, 13 cases of cholera were reported on June 24, 8 cases on August 23 and 3 cases on October 27 in the BMP limits.

Gastro Enteritis

Epidemic Hospital -39

KIMS - 13 (9 children, 4 adults); Victoria Hospital -2.

According to Dr Shanth Kumar of Epidemic Hospital, a person may get cholera by drinking water or eating food contaminated with the cholera bacterium. In an epidemic, the source of the contamination is usually the faeces of an infected person.

The disease can spread rapidly in areas with inadequate treatment of sewage and drinking water.

Meanwhile, Health Minister R Ashok too denied that there were any case of cholera cases reported in the City.

http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/mar122006/state1923402006311.asp