Mexico on alert after cholera outbreak in Haiti

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Mexico on alert after cholera outbreak in Haiti
The health secretary said it took this measure to make an early detection because there is always risk. He said we are prepared to deal with the bacteria.

24/11/2010 - 22:54
Mexico City .- The Secretary of Health Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos said that Mexico is in a health alert by the rapid spread of cholera from Haiti to different parts of the world also for its high degree of lethality that has killed more than 300 dead and about 5 000 hospitalizations.

"Mexico has raised a warning precisely for the actions that are essential to make an early detection because there is always risk, whether from a person who moves from U.S. to here, or directly, and can be carriers of the disease "he said after the change of board of the National Academy of Medicine.

In the meantime, cholera has spread across international borders, have detected cases in the Dominican Republic and the southern state of Florida, the United States and the SSA confirmed an isolated case in Sinaloa, about three months ago
"It's getting stronger action of the water quality ... strengthening the epidemiological surveillance by taking samples from people with diarrhea and drainage if there is bacteria," he said.

The federal official noted that Mexico is prepared to tackle the epidemic and make the necessary health fences.

He said that as in the case of Influenza A H1N1, does not limit the movement of people across borders.

"Of course there is the knowledge and responsibility for severe diarrhea can be anger, and it is important to detect early, being able to fences and will not contaminate water tables which could trigger the spread of disease ".

In the policy change of the National Academy of Medicine, the outgoing president, Manuel Ruiz de Chavez, welcomed the new leader, David Kershenobich.
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M?xico-C?lera minimal risk or important: SSA
Published on November 25, 2010 14:38

Mexico City .- The Secretary of Health Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos said that if there is contaminated ground water, neglecting the chlorination of drinking water and the states do not make an early diagnosis of patients with diarrhea, Mexico runs the risk of triggering a cholera epidemic, as happened three administrations ago and whose containment lasted several months.

But "with proper monitoring, there is adequate control should not become an epidemic, can be isolated cases ... I have the experience, fortunately, but that depends greatly on the time it is diagnosed and control measures immediately established. May be minimal to significant, "he said after the Telethon Foundation donate a Radiotherapy Unit at the National Institute of Pediatrics.

The federal official said "we can not close our eyes to a problem that is very close, and came to the U.S. and there could be cases here and if any it has the infrastructure for people to attend because in general should not cholera be fatal. "

And he said, with the mobility of people there every day passing through airports and customs of Mexico, the epidemic that broke out in Haiti can come at any moment, "and the closer is (for the cases of United States) even more so. A few people get the disease can travel, move to another country and then have the demonstrations. "

For the same, he said, since last week launched a health alert across the country for states and municipalities, in collaboration with the National Water Commission and the Federal Commission to Prevent Health Risks, monitor water quality, the drains to detect the cholera vibrio, and laboratory tests done to all those who present with diarrhea.

"It's a strengthening of surveillance, cases of cholera are mandatory reporting, and this also covers hospitals if a patient is identified immediately notified to follow up, establish health fences, and so far we have only detected one positive case in Sinaloa 4 or 5 months. "

Since the onset of cholera cases in Haiti, killing more than 300 dead and about 5 000 hospitalizations, the World Health Organization warned the world about your quick and rapid spread, and within months became the Dominican Republic and the Florida, U.S..

C?rdova Villalobos recommended that people drink bottled water, where food is consumed care, avoid unhealthy places seafood and watch the food is cooked and fried to avoid the risk of bacteria, fruit and vegetables perfectly well cleaned, and in case of atole type fever or diarrhea, seek immediate medical attention.

Similarly, reiterated that, as in the case of Influenza A H1N1, does not limit the movement of people or goods borders. "It is only recommended if there are symptoms.

(Information Milenio.com)

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Measures against cholera in Yucatan
The goal now is to prevent an outbreak of disease

Given the international alert issued by the appearance of cholera cases in Haiti, the Yucatan authorities intensified measures announced to prevent outbreak of any case in the state, which remains free of the disease since 1998.

At a press conference, Director of Protection Against Sanitary Risks, Z?cil Moguel Manzur, called the mayors of the 106 municipalities to monitor water chlorination and restaurants and shops to extreme measures of hygiene, according to a newsletter.

Accompanied by the Director of Prevention and Health Protection, Ariel Castillo Pacheco, Deputy Director of Health Services Yucatan, Salvador G?mez truck, the officer said that these measures will be taken after the warning from the Commission for Protection Against Health Risks .

In the event 112.000 reported cases of diarrheal diseases so far this year across the state. There was a call not to alarm the population, as the measures are now just prevention.

Simple activities such as washing hands before and after using the bathroom help prevent infection, he said.

The last cases of cholera in Yucatan in 1991 were 202, in 1992, 846, 1993, 31, 1994, 0 in 1995, 3.597 with 12 deaths in 1996, 186, and 1997 a single case

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Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas
Filters have been extended by health at airports, bus stations and there are 15 sentinel on roads, says epidemiologist Alfredo Rodr?guez
By: Liliana Torres / Ciudad Victoria

20/12/2010 | Updated at 08:46 h

Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas .- The state epidemiologist Alfredo Rodr?guez Trujillo reported that they have extended health filters at airports and bus stations to prevent cholera Tamaulipas.

He said a month ago 15 sentinel sites were established on state highways, in which 600 people monitoring the entry of visitors, monitoring has been extended to the detection of the disease in South and North America.

"There are 15 sentinel sites in the southern state border and for screening of diarrheal patients. They were making shows and if you have pictures suspects were seen at home to see the evolution of the problem and dismiss it cholera. "

Trujillo Rodr?guez explained that by taking samples of the patient was followed up and implemented them an epidemiological study to see how long they will be in the state.

"There is a special surveillance for cholera, mainly in patients admitted to hospitals for acute diarrheal to verify that this is no disease. "

He noted that although not detected a case of cholera surveillance continues, "The samples we have taken have come out negative, no cases of cholera, but we must be vigilant because there is a global outbreak, "he said.

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Announced measures to prevent cholera infections
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Health Video | Jalisco Secretariat of Health | Cholera.
One of the strongest recommendations is to intensify the toilet in the handling and consumption of seafood. ARCHIVE
◦ involve several government agencies
The goal is to prevent the disease that plagues affecting Haiti Jalisco, where the last case was reported a decade ago

GUADALAJARA, JALISCO (29/DIC/2010) .- The threat of outbreak of cholera is latent throughout the country, because the disease spread from Haiti and other Latin American countries. Therefore, the Ministry of Health Jalisco (SSJ) prepares its plan to reinforce prevention efforts.

This is the so-called "Master Plan" beginning to apply in January, with the participation of various government entities, "for better disease control and prevent the disease from reaching the state," said Chief Sanitary Regulations the secretariat, Juan Carlos Olivares Galvez.

"In the coming weeks we will be seeking the intervention with other levels of government (...), only through a plan of this nature might try to attack any of the potential for dissemination."

Although we have identified the consequences of the disaster in Haiti, the scarcity of water, waste and dead fecal outdoors, among other factors, were the trigger for the outbreak of cholera, there is a risk that is presented in other countries, even without the coincidence of such situations, so the SSJ plan covers all possibilities.

The official stressed that the conditions for diarrheal disease occurs there. Remember that causes death if not treated properly, and involving the environment and the general public and the international movement through airports or seaports.

The alert for cholera spread worldwide since it began to appear cases in Haiti, so a few weeks, in Jalisco instructed the Health Sector staff pay special attention to each of the cases of diarrhea, for sampled and review that are free from cholera.

In Jalisco has not been detected so far the presence of toxigenic vibrio cholerae, which causes cholera in humans. However, some other Mexican states have reported confirmed cases."We have already detected in wastewater, on occasion, non-toxigenic vibrio cholerae, but this is a tracer that conditions exist which may be established by the arrival of toxigenic.

Some of the actions that Olivares said G?lvez will be shared with the public, include interventions in areas such as use of water and ice for human consumption, waste management, health promotion and exercise caution in selling food such as shellfish.

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Some measures of hygiene to prevent cholera are frequent hand washing, not eating raw seafood, as well as not using water of uncertain origin.

The last local case of cholera occurred in the municipality of Tlaquepaque, in 2001.

The plan will intervene in the management of:

Water and ice for human use and consumption.
Wastewater.
Infectious biohazardous waste.
Mass events and cultural festivities.
Disaster relief.
Care complaints.
Social and risk communication.
Food.
Health promotion.
Health promotion.
Hospital care.
International health.
Disposal of bodies and funeral services.
Municipal solid waste.

Source: Secretar?a de Salud Jalisco

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Guadalajara
Cholera alert

Photo: Ricardo Chavez Moran / The West.
The last case occurred in 2001, but now there are conditions that could be conducive to bacteria
Occidental
December 29, 2010

Isaura Lopez Villalobos

Guadalajara, Jalisco .- In Jalisco there is the risk of an outbreak of cholera in different hygienic conditions in which people live, says the Ministry of Health (SSJ), to detect marine product with the bacterium vibrio cholera " non-toxigenic "and because some municipalities have not chlorinated drinking water to 100 percent.

Although still not expected the extent of poisoning that might make the disease in the territory of Jalisco, for now, the agency carries out various monitoring, detecting that four percent of the fish product sold in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara (ZMG) is found the non-toxigenic vibrio cholera and type parahaemolyticus from the states of Veracruz and the Pacific coast.

On the other hand, performs random samples to 18 percent of patients attending health centers in the state with diarrhea more than five days duration, which are considered "suspects," said Juan Carlos Olivares Galvez Sanitary Regulation director general of the SSJ.

Olivares Galvez urged municipal authorities to keep close watch in landfills or open dumps to reduce the risks of cholera and prevent "could spiral out of control," mainly because people live nearby.

It also urged local governments to prevent the issuance of municipal licenses for the sale of food on the road: "We are calling on all authorities do not, because conditions are not there to sell highly perishable foods."

With regard to drinking water, which must be disinfected, the health official said that in the coming weeks will be sending jobs to local councils to "warn them of their responsibility and the measures and sanctions that might in due time to receive."

It will start a Master Plan preventive intervention with 15 regulation, control and health promotion, to the cholera epidemic alert, with the participation of different departments of the three organs of government (Federal, State and Municipal), for " attack any possibility of AI virus, "he said.

The last case of cholera was made in Jalisco in 2001 in the town of Tlaquepaque, in the year 1998 saw the last death from complications of the disease at the national level.

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Guadalajara
Unchlorinated water
Occidental
December 29, 2010

Isaura Lopez Villalobos

A few days before the end of the year 2010 and to the health alert for cholera, there are still municipalities in Jalisco that do not meet the parameters of chlorination of drinking water, the argument change of administration and lack of resources in the coffers City to buy chlorine and maintaining the pumping equipment.

The municipality lowest level of chlorination, which recorded "zero" was Chimaltit?n, located north of the state and considered a low level of development: "This is a situation of grave risk," said Juan Carlos Olivares , director general of Health Regulation of the Ministry of Health in Jalisco. Later, it was San Juan de los Lagos, Ca?adas de Obreg?n, Atotonilco el Alto, Manzanilla de la Paz, Teocuitatl?n Corona, Cuautitl?n de Garc?a Barrag?n, Lemon and Tuxcacuesco, Ahualulco Market, Ameca and San Martin Hidalgo.

In the conurbation, the problem is recorded in some subdivisions in the municipality of Tlajomulco de Zuniga, which closed the year with less than 85 percent of coloring in the water, said Eduardo Carballo Triana, Head of Goods and Services unit .

Although the city received several statements by the SSJ by low levels of chlorine detected and even if it meant a "dispute with managers of the system," the fact that it is closed in a "slightly below 85 percent of the subsystems city ", while El Salto, Jalisco is at 98 percent level disinfection.

The water problem in these municipalities, said Juan Carlos Olivares, is due to the lack of adequate financial-support mechanisms to meet the needs, and that only depend on state or federal budget, this problem has been consulted with the State Water Commission .

Said that you must perform other actions to ensure that adequate water is not only to being chlorinated, but inter-certified systems. Currently, only Puerto Vallarta has been recertified for nearly two decades, while the system Intermunicipal Water and Sewerage (SIAPA) in the Metropolitan Zone of Guadalajara, said it was a "very complex", but the levels are adequate disinfection and yet, he said, fulfills a part of what a criterion for certification.

The bottom line this year, which made the Ministry of Health in the levels of chlorination, is that exceeded one and a half over the minimum recommendation is desirable that 85.5 percent chlorination.

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Tamaulipas coast vulnerable to Cholera: Health

Continuing Tamaulipas cholera alert
No cholera cases in Reynosa
Investigated 300 patients with suspected cholera
Health and migration are coordinated to detect cholera in Tamaulipas


By Alejandro Paz / MetroNoticias

Ciudad Victoria, Tam.-health officials have found that areas with greater vulnerability to the presence of cholera in Tamaulipas are Matamoros, Tampico and Altamira.

The head of the department of epidemiology at the Health Secretariat (SSA), Alfredo Rodr?guez Trujillo clarified yet they are in rural areas to urban areas, are usually the latter where cases have been filed.

"Outbreaks of cholera are usually present where have all the utilities and where are handled important is food marketing in urban areas where most traded seafood."

Although subsequently pointed out that the deficit of public services represents a risk for disease.

Trujillo Rodriguez, indicated that the coastal areas are vulnerable and it is there where they have stepped up surveillance.

"The high risk areas where we have the presence of the disease obviously remain the coastal areas such as Matamoros, Tampico and Altamira on all the places where people are engaged in fishing."

He explained that the cholera bacterium lives in the sea, but obviously through food is that it can contaminate many sources.

"Water is a vehicle to spread the disease, much as they are foods that are contaminated by sick people."

The state official commented that ensuring the levels of chlorine in the water with the support of the population reduces the possibility of cholera cases

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Tabasco
SSa declares national alert for cholera

El Heraldo de Tabasco
January 28, 2011

Ruth P?rez Maga?a

Villahermosa, Tabasco .- The federal Health Ministry said on permanent alert for cholera that although in some countries is controlled and therefore all states should strengthen actions. Celia Alpuche Aranda Director of the Institute of Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference (Indre) stated that "it is difficult to avoid coming to Mexico for business travel and epidemics all given in other states so we must be alert so that we can promptly detect and shut down more income and does not spread. "

Although Mexico has a close watch over the Red Negative Cholera in which the monitoring system works in the country, with the area of epidemiology, laboratories and know how to deal with suspected cases can not lower our guard.

The country has an annual average of samples of suspected cholera cases from 3000 to 4000 are minimal but they are positive, it said that "what we have on projects is to work hard with all surveillance systems in epidemiology and laboratory because the first thing to know any cases, "he explained.

In 2010 only identified a single case of cholera in Sinaloa and was an isolated case and different from the separation of Haiti, so action is reinforced through the program of epidemiological emergencies and disasters through CENAPRECE to establish a system defense, and although this applies throughout the country the emphasis is on the south southeast, where the actions devoted themselves.

"The clinical appearance should be worked to remind the official said that the clinical symptoms of the disease, how to think in anger to find the samples? But it is essential to catch it early and be reinforcing aspects such as safe food and water municipal water distribution, and for that we work together to prevent a pandemic in Haiti and the Dominican Republic where the epidemic caused thousands of deaths, "he said.

He also considered that people should take extra care with food and beverage intake, "people should self-care in their hygiene practices should take pure water, and if you do not have access to this is to boil water and keep it properly , although Mexico is fully controlled until now. "

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Health rules out presence of Cholera in Tamaulipas

The Health Secretary Norberto Trevi?o Garc?a-Manzo, ruled out the presence of cholera in the territory of Tamaulipas, but announced the reinforcement of health surveillance operation
By: Writing / Ciudad Victoria
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Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas .- The Ministry of Health in the State ruled out the presence of cholera in the territory of Tamaulipas, but announced the reinforcement of health surveillance operation at the increased consumption of seafood in the season of Lent.

The Health Secretary Norberto Trevi?o Garc?a-Manzo, reported that it continues to the eradication of cholera because health actions are critical and one of the priorities of the Governor Egidio Torre Cant?.

He said the Health Risks regional coordination of the eight jurisdictions of the organization comes to the placement of Moore swabs to find this type of bacteria.

He explained that the swabs are placed in waste water from hospitals, factories, airports, bus stations and surface water from rivers to detect any type of micro-organism that may affect the health of the population.

Sewage is waste materials derived from domestic or industrial processes that for public health can not be disposed of untreated into streams or lakes conventional.

Those samples are planted and harvested at 24 hours for review in the State Laboratory of Public Health and the Hospital "Carlos Canseco" in the city of Tampico.

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For 10 years no cases of cholera
By: Gabriela Gonzalez, Friday, February 25, 2011

According to statistics from the Ministry of Health, since about a decade ago in Nuevo Laredo is not presented a case of cholera, in the vicinity of the season of Lent the risk for this condition from recurring increases, considered Dr. Jaime Emilio Guti?rrez Serrano , head of the health jurisdiction number five.

Therefore, health authorities are calling the population to avoid eating ceviche and oysters, the two main products not being cooked in boiling may contain cholera bacteria and affect the health of those who consume them.
"Patients are starting to suffer from diarrhea and 15 to 20 to 30 cases so it's diarrhea who become dehydrated at the start may be accompanied by some fever," specified the doctor.

Another characteristic of the liquid diarrhea is whitish in color, like rice water and odorless.

"It is important to first detect the condition and give the patient the treatment, as Bactrin or other drugs, there is great variety, which can be used and how important is to hydrate a person and nothing happens," he said.

"At that time, that daily monitoring is to stay as a custom is placing swabs on all culverts to assess whether circulating cholera, but we must not lower our guard, especially in these times of high consumption of seafood," said .

COEPRIS verifications

For their part, staff of the State Commission Against Sanitary Risks, prior to the season, made a series of operations in malls and restaurants, looking for the sale of prohibited food for human consumption.

"The call for people to refrain from consuming this product is permanent, but this season the verification operations should be to strengthen, said Francisco Salvador Estrada local COEPRIS holder.

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Jalisco health program Lent begins, there is cholera alert
Health | Jalisco Health Secretariat | Cholera

With the start of Lent, marine products recorded increase in the price. A. CAMACHO
Plan extended to May 1
Jalisco Health Secretariat intensifies actions during Lent

GUADALAJARA, JALISCO (10/MAR/2011) .- With an emphasis on prevention of cholera, after the national epidemic alert, Jalisco Secretariat of Health began its program to intensify activities for Lent, which lasts until May 1 .

The plan is to reduce the risk of contracting a foodborne illness from consumption of seafood.

The Director of Health Regulation, Juan Carlos Olivares Galvez, said this year is remarkable for the alert of cholera, which added to the high temperatures pose a risk to the presentation of various diseases.

The actions include health promotion, training and distribution of broadcast material alluding to good hygiene and sanitation practices. It is planned that during the whole year is distributed 12 000 leaflets aimed at retailers, restaurateurs and the general public.

The unit has a record of 731 thousand establishments, of which 39 thousand correspond to processing plants, 431 thousand 261 Ostioneria fishmongers and restaurants. 652 samples were taken at random to raw, cooked and prepared for these shifts, on a par with the verification of 745 shops selling such foods.