Greece urges health precautions after suspect cholera case on Kos - first test results negative for cholera

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Greece urges health precautions after suspect cholera case on Kos

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Greek health authorities urged the public to take health precautions on Friday after a suspected cholera case was discovered on Kos island, a tourist destination and entry point for migrants from the Middle East and Asia.

An official for the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention told Reuters a 79-year-old Dutch tourist was transferred from Kos for tests and treatment in an Athens hospital with symptoms of cholera, including bad diarrhea and high fever, but the diagnosis was not yet confirmed.

"We are proceeding with more examinations to avoid the danger of a contagious disease," the center said in a statement.

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Negative for cholera first results to the Dutch tourist

Friday, 02 October 2015 17:15 UPD: 17:58

Negative for cholera came out the initial laboratory testing which was the Dutch Tourist and moved to Athens due to acute infectious gastroenteritis with severe complications.

As announced HCDCP the laboratory investigation continues with further molecular testing.

The Centre stresses that remain alert to the full investigation and investigation of the incident.

The 79chronos Netherlands, on holiday in Kos, has admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.

Given the seriousness of his condition, he was transferred to evacuation from the island in a private hospital in Athens.

http://www.naftemporiki.gr/story/10...a-ta-prota-apotelesmata-ston-ollando-tourista

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Published: 02 October 2015, 17:15

The microbiological control will continue

Negative cholera for the first examination to the Dutch tourist from Kos

Athena

For serious infectious gastroenteritis incident complications speaks HCDCP, after the negative results of laboratory tests which were known in the early afternoon to the scientists of the Centre. The microbiological control will continue with molecular analysis that scientists exclude completely and / or confirm the possibility of cholera. They remain however on alert but not worry too much. From morning HCDCP has made ​​recommendations for strict compliance with the hygiene rules in response to the occurrence of severe prolonged gastroenteritis in Dutch tourists aged 79 years, who spend their holidays on the island of Kos. The patient due to the severity of the condition of the hospitalized in Intensive Care Unit Private Hospital in Athens after evacuation. The Centre, pending a final microbiological outcome of patient recommends, as in all infectious diarrhea, the careful application of all hygiene measures for the consumption of water and food and the careful hand hygiene in all cases. In the morning and sent KEELPNO echelon of scientists in Kos for further epidemiological investigation and detection of any additional incidents in cooperation with local authorities.

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