19 new cholera cases confirmed in E China county

[tetano]

HEFEI - Another five people have been sickened by a cholera outbreak in an east China county, local health authorities said Saturday.

This raised the number of total cholera cases in Mengcheng of Anhui province to 38, but all earlier 33 cholera patients have been cured, the Anhui provincial health bureau said in a press release.


The five new patients are under treatment in isolation, it said.

Wang Lin, deputy director of Mengcheng county health bureau, said the new patients had not eaten together.

The cholera outbreak has been brought under initial control as new cases declined sharply as of August 30, it said.

The cholera outbreak was detected on August 16, when the first three patients were admitted into hospital.

The three people ate at three different restaurants. The provincial health and disease control experts were still working to trace the source of the epidemic in the county of 1 million people.

Some local residents blamed low hygiene awareness among the public and street food peddlers and stalls which offered poor quality food for the outbreak.

Earlier local authorities have closed all street food stalls and restaurants for disinfection as the disease is transmitted through water and food.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-09/04/content_11256639.htm

 

[kiwibird]

Re: 19 new cholera cases confirmed in E China county

By Agence France-Presse, Updated: 9/10/2010
China reports fresh cholera outbreak
Nearly 20 middle school students have been diagnosed with cholera in eastern China, the government has said, in the second outbreak of the potentially fatal disease in the nation in a month.

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The students began falling ill on September 2, displaying common symptoms including fever, abdominal pain and serious diarrhoea and vomiting, it said in a statement.

The city is on the border with Anhui province, where authorities covered up a cholera outbreak for 12 days last month out of fears that publicising it would shock the local population, state media said earlier this week.

The Anhui health department acknowledged Tuesday that at least 38 people in the province had been sickened with cholera since August 16, with all patients already out of hospital and no new cases discovered this month.

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It was not immediately clear if the strain of cholera found in Anhui was the same as the one detected in Huaian.

No fatalities have been reported in either outbreak.
http://news.malaysia.msn.com/regional/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4326290

 

[kiwibird]

Re: 19 new cholera cases confirmed in E China county

Sorry - duplicate post.