Dominican Republic: cholera slowing - 149 deaths confirmed

[Shiloh]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 32

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 32

Source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/155384.html

Cholera cases hit 32 in Dominican Rep.
Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:16AM

The number of cholera cases in the Dominican Republic has jumped to 32 as health experts have registered four more cases of the water-borne disease in the Caribbean country.

The latest cases involve a 63-year-old woman, a 13-year-old boy, a 19-year-old boy and a 49-year-old man, the Dominican health ministry said on Sunday. It added that all of the patients are "stable and in good condition," Prensa Latina reported on Monday...

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 46

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 46

machinetranslation

Friday, December 17, 2010

Eight new cholera cases brings total to 46 in Dominican Republic

EFE , Santo Domingo

The Dominican authorities of Health confirmed today the detection of eight new cases of cholera in the country, bringing to 46 the number of people affected by the disease.

The new cases were located in the provinces of San Juan de la Maguana, Elías Piña and Independence in western Dominican Republic, near the border with Haiti.

In that country, the epidemic of this disease has caused 2,478 deaths and 112,330 affected, according to official figures.

The eight new patients detected in the Dominican Republic "are making life as normal after the treatment offered," he said in a statement the Ministry of Public Health.

The department stressed that the disease is under control "in the Dominican Republic, where there have been no fatalities.

The Government and the Dominican health authorities on Tuesday launched the second national day of education and prevention of cholera in districts, sectors and provinces of the Dominican territory, an initiative that aims to keep control of the epidemic.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 59

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 59

machinetranslated

The Republic December 19, 2010,

Public Health reported nine cases of cholera

59 ADDITION TO THE DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASE

Nine new cases of cholera were confirmed yesterday in the country, bringing the total to 59 people who have been diagnosed with the disease, of which 55 are completely healthy, with normal life, and four are in hospital receiving treatment, but stable conditions.

Of the newly confirmed cases, four belong to the province of Santiago, two who reside in La Canela, one in Navarrete and the other in Villa Gonzalez, two others were confirmed with the disease in San Juan de la Maguana and one each in the provinces where Santo Sunday, Dajab?n and Monte Cristi.

Public Health stated that the monitoring work carried out by health workers with families that have had cases of people affected, it has revealed that 55 of the patients are healthy and doing his normal life.

Stresses that the successful management of hospital services and the monitoring work done by the team of epidemiologists, among others, have allowed the disease is under control in the Dominican Republic.

read more - listindario

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 70

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 70

Cholera gains ground with 8 new cases

SANTO DOMINGO. Eight persons, four of them residents in East Santo Domingo, two in Banica, in the province of Elias Pi?a, one in Nagua, and another in the town of Jimani were confirmed to be positive for cholera and with these cases the number of known cases rose to 70.

The increase in the persons affected coincides with the startup of the second National Program of Education for the Prevention of Cholera and other Tropical Diseases. The program is being organized by the Ministry of Public Health.

The Minister of Public Health, Bautista Rojas Gomez, said that only three persons are still hospitalized and the others are all going about their normal routines.

Rojas Gomez did not offer any more details on the new cased and he reported that the search for suspicious patients is ongoing.

He said that 100% of the cases of the sick have presented a mild clinical picture, and their evolution has been favorable. Because of this, there have not been any deaths from the disease reported.

The 70 confirmed cases are part of some 400 cases that were reported as suspicious.

Read more: diariolibre

thanks to Crof

 

[Tonka]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 82

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 82

http://www.telesurtv.net/secciones/...-los-casos-de-colera-en-republica-dominicana/

Spanish to English translation

Increase to 82 cases of cholera in the Dominican Republic

Dominican authorities develop a national mobilization campaign to combat cholera. (Photo: Infobae) The cholera epidemic plaguing Haiti has affected over 121 000 people across the country . (Photo: Efe)
Cuba increased its health care to Haiti. (Photo: File)

Some 82 people have been infected with cholera in the Dominican Republic, according to a statement issued Thursday by the health authorities of that country, which states that 75 of those infected and are healthy.

According to the letter, signed by the Ministry of Public Health, in recent days reported nine cases of cholera in the nation, bringing the total number of infected 73 to 82.

The new cholera were detected in the intensive search operation conducted by the National Epidemiological System staff.

According to the Government, the nine patients are divided into the provinces of San Juan de la Maguana and El?as Pi?a (both in the west), Santiago (north), Azua (south) and Valverde (north).

The letter from the Ministry of Health points out that of those infected, about 75 are already out of danger. Perform "routine activities in different parts of the country", was outlined in the text.

In the Dominican Republic there have been no deaths from cholera.

The Dominican authorities develop a national mobilization campaign to combat cholera, since the country was affected following the spread of the disease in neighboring Haiti, which has caused so far about two thousand 500 deaths.

In Haiti, a country affected by cholera since mid-October, people are infected and 121,000, according to the latest report issued by the Ministry of Health.

More than a thousand doctors, nurses and Cubans and Latin Americans are carrying out humanitarian efforts to confront and defeat the epidemic in Haiti.

 

[Shiloh]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 82

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 82

Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/af...ocId=CNG.8bb558f13d1c0f827628d7e02ad5801c.751

First Dominican cholera death suspected as cases soar

(AFP) ? 2 hours ago

SANTO DOMINGO ? As cholera infections soar in the Dominican Republic, health authorities probed Sunday a possible first fatality from an outbreak that has killed thousands in Haiti.

Twenty-three new infections brought the total to 105 in Haiti's more developed neighbor, Health Minister Bautista Rojas said, adding that the suspect death was an unnamed individual in the south of the country.

"We had unprecedented growth (of the disease) in the southern provinces of San Juan and Azua," Rojas told reporters. Among the victims, 11 have been admitted to health clinics and the rest have been discharged...

 

[Tonka]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 105 - first death

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 105 - first death

http://www.europapress.es/epsocial/...lera-republica-dominicana-20101227140448.html

Spanish to English translation

BORDER WITH HAITI
Over one hundred people infected with cholera in Dominican Republic
Photo: ? KENA BETANCUR / REUTERSSANTO
SUNDAY, December 27 (EUROPA PRESS) -


The Health Minister of the Dominican Republic, Bautista Rojas Gomez said on Sunday the increase in people infected by cholera, with 23 new cases, bringing to 105 the number of affected people in the country during a visit to the newspaper 'Price list Journal. "

Eleven people remain hospitalized for the disease, but the remaining 94 people are at home recovering. Rojas said he had not been no deaths from the disease, although it is investigating the death of a farmer in the town of San Juan de la Maguana on 23 December. That day, amounting to 82 infected.

Rojas Gomez on Saturday visited the regions of San Juan and Azua, which have significantly increased cases of cholera, especially on the banks of the river San Juan. The minister said construction of new latrines and asked the citizens to boil water for consumption.

In the fight against the spread of cholera, Rojas Gomez also requested the National Institute of Water Resources to cut the water for two days in the channel isura de Azua, for the sun to kill the cholera bacterium.

The Ministry of Health has distributed to its staff in the Artibonite river, San Juan and Yaque del Sur, so that people do not drink the water. Rojas Gomez reported the addition of 5,000 new volunteers on Tuesday to fight the disease.

The Artibonite River also runs one of the regions hardest hit by cholera in Haiti, where the first infections were recorded. The latest reports put at 2,591 people dead and 121,518 cholera those infected by the disease in Haiti.

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 115 - first death

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 115 - first death

machinetranslated

Dominican Republic takes action by cholera

Monday December 27, 2010

Dominican health authorities announced on Monday that at least one dry irrigation canal and banned fishing in several rivers to the spread of cholera in the weekend rose to 115 affected.

Health Minister Bautista Rojas said that during the weekend until Monday morning had reported 33 new cases of cholera, many of them in the Elías Piña province, bordering with Haiti and the neighboring San Juan de la Maguana, 205 kilometers west of Santo Domingo.

In two rivers that cross the two provinces the authorities found the bacteria that spread cholera.

More: eluniverso

Fish could spread cholera: http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=157238

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 120 - first death suspected

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 120 - first death suspected

machinetranslated

28/12/2010 -

The number of people affected by cholera in the Dominican Republic rises to 120


Health authorities in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday raised to 120 the number of people affected by cholera in the country but said they are all stable.

The Health Minister noted in a statement that only one person is hospitalized here because of illness, so the mortality rate remains at zero.

folha

 

[Shiloh]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 139 - first deaths suspected

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 139 - first deaths suspected

Source: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=382674&CategoryId=14092

Cholera Cases in Dominican Republic Continue to Rise

SANTO DOMINGO ? The Dominican Health Ministry on Thursday reported 19 new cases of cholera, which raises to 139 the number of people known to have been infected with the disease in this country, and it said that it is investigating the death of a person due to vomiting and excessive diarrhea, both of which are symptoms of cholera.

The new cases were detected in municipalities near the border with Haiti, where cholera has killed more than 2,900 people since it appeared there in mid-October...

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 148 - first deaths suspected

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 148 - first deaths suspected

Health authorities rise to 148 cases of cholera in the country


SANTO DOMINGO .- The Ministry of Health of the Dominican Republic today confirmed 148 cases of cholera, while announcing that intensified prevention measures and control of the disease that has killed 3,333 people in Haiti.

All persons affected by cholera in the country "are healthy and leading a normal life in their communities", the ministry of Health in a statement.

He said the year ended with 148 cases of cholera although he had established a logistics for 5,000 hospitals and 20,000 affected by the disease, which appeared last October in the Haitian city of Mirebalais (center).

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 152 - first deaths suspected

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 152 - first deaths suspected

machinetranslation

excerpt

Health confirmed 4 new cases of cholera in the country

THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY DISEASE RISES TO 152


The Public Health Ministry yesterday confirmed four cases of cholera, which amounts to 152 the number of affected people in the country with this disease, at the conclusion of the epidemiological week number 52.

Health officials explained that the four confirmed cases, two belong to Independence, a La Altagracia, and another in Azua. Confirmed cholera cases correspond to 13 of the 31 provinces and the National District.

In written statements, the Ministry of Public Health indicates that people who contracted the disease in the Dominican Republic during the past two months, none of them are hospitalized. However, says there are other suspected cases are under laboratory analysis, but pertain to the first epidemiological week of the year.

listindiario

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 169 - first deaths suspected

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 169 - first deaths suspected

machinetranslation

Saturday, january 15, 2011

Number increases to 169 cholera-affected country

SANTO DOMINGO .- The health authorities of the Dominican Republic today confirmed 13 new cases of cholera, bringing to 169 the total affected by the disease in the country, but said they all were in good health.

The Health Ministry said in a statement that the last people who contracted the deadly disease "are enjoying good health after receiving appropriate treatment."

Among the latter affected include a woman and her son this week were taken to a children's hospital of the National District, the center of the capital, the report said.

The portfolio was a decrease in the number of affected to ensure that the average number of cases during last December was about 30 per week.

Local health authorities intensified this week educational actions to prevent cholera in neighboring Haiti, where the disease has killed 3,790 people, after confirming the presence of bacteria in two major rivers and several wells in the border area.

The Health Ministry warned Tuesday the locals do not swim in the Artibonite river, which separates the two Caribbean countries, and in San Juan, in southwest Dominican Republic, because in both have identified the presence of cholera bacteria.

The ministry said that 60% of cholera cases detected in the nation contracted the deadly disease by consuming untreated water from rivers, wells and aqueducts, or bathe in them.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 169 - first deaths suspected

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 169 - first deaths suspected

machinetranslation; edited

Dominican Republic: eight suspected cases of cholera in Santiago

The management of the Hospital José María Cabral y Báez the city of Santiago has confirmed that eight patients [are] treated with symptoms of cholera. The spokesman stressed that all necessary measures are taken to prevent a possible spread of the disease.

The authorities of the Dominican Republic are on alert. Tens of thousands of pilgrims will gather untill Sunday in the basilica of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia to Higuey, the capital of the province of La Altagracia.

Because of the mass gathering of people special hygienic measures were taken.

read more: latina press

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 169 - first deaths suspected

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 169 - first deaths suspected

machinetranslation, edited.

This article in El Nuevo Diario says: no new (suspect) cholera cases.

It seems to me the writer (latina press) of the previous article misread his/her source.



20/1/2011

Cabral y Báez hospital director said have dealt with only 8 cases Cholera


SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS SANTIAGO .- Dr. Nelson Báez Noyer regional university hospital director José María Cabral y Báez in this city said today that the center has seen a total of eight possible cases of cholera, and that since reported the onset of the disease in Haiti, took all the necessary steps to address it in case they were admitted patients, as they have done.

According to the senior official in the area of health, at this hospital will not perish any patient suffering from cholera, because it is prepared for any eventuality of the disease, so accountable and have the latest medicines.

Báez Noyer said that the Cabral and Baez has to care for these patients, with an isolation facility equipped with 20 beds, which have never been occupied or medium capacity, for the few cases that have arisen.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 169 - first death confirmed

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 169 - first death confirmed

23 January 2011

Dominican Republic confirms first cholera death

The Dominican Republic has officially registered its first cholera death since an epidemic of the disease began sweeping through neighbouring Haiti.

Health officials said the victim was a 53-year-old Haitian who was being treated in the eastern town of Higuey.

The government said it would step up its prevention system in the area.

more @ BBC news

thanks to Crof

 

[Tonka]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 169 - first death confirmed

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 169 - first death confirmed

http://www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2011/1/24/359274/Salud-confirma-haitiano-murio-de-colera-en-Higuey

Spanish to English translation

January 24, 2011, 12:08 AM
Health confirmed he died of cholera in Higuey
First death reported, no outbreak in the neighborhood in which resided

Written by: G. ORTIZ ALTAGRACIA (A.ortiz @ hoy.com.do)
The autopsy on the body of Francois Renold Haitian relieved the abundant presence of whitish faeces, as generated by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae that causes cholera, reported yesterday by the Ministry of Health.

The findings of histological studies performed on the body of Haiti who died on Friday 21 in Higuey is compatible with the disease, so his death is associated with the disease.

The official note refers to the Haitian citizen living in Florida sector of Higuey, where doctors at the hospital Our Lady of La Altagracia in the city told reporters today that there was an outbreak of bacterial disease.

This is the first officially confirmed cholera death after the illness, reported on 19 October Haiti in November to affect more than 225 Dominicans.

Health reported that the crop but is still undergoing laboratory tests, but says the autopsy on the corpse stools elements compatible with the presence of the disease.

Casuistry. Last week the city died Leodany Montero. According to official data, was ill, but died of a heart defect and had problems with potassium.

The Health Ministry yesterday entered in your document that launched surveillance and epidemic control in the area where he resides, but until that time other cases were detected.

In this neighborhood there is no potable water or latrines.

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 169 - first death confirmed

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 169 - first death confirmed

machinetranslation

Tuesday January 25, 2011

Public health authorities reported 13 new cases of cholera

SANTO DOMINGO, Jan. 24 .- The Ministry of Health of the Dominican Republic reported today that there have been 13 new cases of cholera in the country, a day after confirming the first fatality due to the disease.

The agency said 53 people have tested positive for cholera so far this year, bringing to 238 the number of people affected.

Local health authorities assured, however, that none of the new patients has serious health complications.

read more - barrigaverde



Snip from listindiario

Meanwhile, the epidemiological surveillance system captured 13 new cases of cholera in the past week, bringing the total to 53 people living in far this month.

Last year ended with 184 cases, for a total of 237 since it was detected first in the country.

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 237 - first death confirmed

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 237 - first death confirmed

machinetranslation

January 25, 2011

More than 30 cases of cholera discovered in Tiroli border community

Tirolien, Haiti .- Officials of the Ministry of Public Health found that country the appearance of the outbreak of cholera in that town.

A team of this media traveled to the community where they realized the sad reality that lives the area which borders the Dominican Republic, for the community in the municipality Villa Anacaona Restoration.

Because of this situation, the provincial public health director of Dajabón in the Dominican Republic, Dr. Rafael Salas Ubiera moved to the place where he noted that the information provided in the village called Tiroly were detected about 30 cases and the death of 3 persons infected with this epidemic.

Read more (Spanish) - elmasacre

Links leads to several video's

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 237 - first death confirmed - numbers are questioned

Re: Dominican Republic: confirmed cholera cases climb to 237 - first death confirmed - numbers are questioned

machinetranslations

CMD says Government manages cholera politically

The union called for a transparent handle the subject of cholera, after putting in question the number of people affected by the disease


SANTO DOMINGO .- The Dominican Medical Association (CMD) has accused the Ministry of Public Health in a political way to handle the reality of cholera in the country.

The union called for a transparent handle the subject of cholera, after putting in question the number of people affected by the disease, according to Public Health.

They also call the health authorities say the truth, concerning the withdrawal of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan several newly infected with cholera in the country after attending a party in La Romana.

"This complaint shows that it is taking a political management fears of cholera, it is not possible that only one party more than 20 people have been infected with cholera in the Dominican Republic in three months only 300 cases have been registered" said Dr. Clement Terrero, director of infectious medical CMD.

DIARIOLIBRE


Alarm massive spread of cholera in a wedding


SANTO DOMINGO .- It has caused alarm in the country the massive spread of cholera in a wedding held last Saturday in a town of La Romana, attended by Venezuelans and Dominicans, many entrepreneurs.

The fact came to light after several international news agencies reported the information to the Minister of Health of Venezuela, Eugenia Sader, realizing the spread of dozens of Venezuelans.

According to the official in Venezuela, serving only 21 people present cholera infection due to eating ceviche.

A wedding was also attended Dominican personalities, especially entrepreneurs, some of which are said to be contaminated and receive care at a clinic of the National District.

So far, public health authorities have not referred the case, which remains alarmed the town of La Romana and the country.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez confirmed in a public ceremony imported cholera cases in the Dominican Republic.

So far in the country have confirmed 238 cases of cholera and officially reported the death of a person.

DIARIOLIBRE


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Update, snip from Dominicantoday

The official added that two people who also attended the activity, reportedly a wedding, had later flown to Madrid; one who traveled to Boston and another to Mexico. "All have symptoms and are currently being attended."

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