Haiti - Epidemic of Chikungunya virus - 2014

[Gert van der Hoek]

Ha?ti confirms first cases of chikungunya


According to a Prensa Latina report this week, The Haitian Ministry of Public Health has confirmed the first cases of Chikungunya fever in Haiti, with 20 people reportedly affected by the disease. According to Corvil Salomon, head of the Epidemiology Department for Service and Surveillance, six suspicious cases were reported in Leogane, 32 kilometers south of the capital city.

The rest of the cases are from Drouillard, Croix-des-Pres and Monovil, located in the West department, along with Port-au-Prince.

source: The Global Dispatch

 

[sharon sanders]

Re: Ha?ti confirms first cases of chikungunya

Re: Ha?ti confirms first cases of chikungunya

The Global Dispatch does not link to any official source. There were 20 cases reported as suspected on April 25. I wonder if the article above is a news re-write of the earlier report - and are the same cases, but not properly reported?

Ha?ti: une vingtaine de cas suspects de Chikungunya dans l?Ouest

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=222414

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Ha?ti confirms first cases of chikungunya?

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may 1, 20114


It was this improved surveillance, Haiti's Health Minister Florence Duperval Guillaume said, that triggered concern "after 25 suspected cases tested negative for malaria."

"We don't yet have any confirmations," she said.

The Morning Call

 

[Shiloh]

Haiti confirms 14 Chikungunya cases

Haiti confirms 14 Chikungunya cases

Source: http://www.islandpacket.com/2014/05/06/3097189/haiti-official-says-14-cases-of.html

Haiti confirms 14 cases of mosquito-borne virus
The Associated Press
May 6, 2014 Updated 37 minutes ago


PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti ? A mosquito-borne virus that has spread rapidly through the Caribbean since it was documented in the region for the first time in December has been confirmed in Haiti, a government official said Tuesday.

Authorities have confirmed 14 cases of the chikungunya virus in Haiti, Health Minister Florence Guillaume Duperval said.

Duperval said in an interview with Radio Metropole that the government would soon begin airing public health advisories on the radio to alert people to the symptoms, which can include a sharp fever, headache and joint pain...

 

[sharon sanders]

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014 6:49
The Ministry of Health is sounding the alarm about the chikungunya

Haitian health authorities said they had diagnosed chikungunya , a viral disease in several towns of the south and west of Haiti during this week.

The Minister of Health , Florence Guillaume Duperval , urges citizens to be vigilant while recalling that this fever is not life threatening . The government announced steps to reduce the spread of chikungunya virus in the country.

So far 14 cases have been diagnosed in Leogane , Carrefour, Delmas, Petion Ville , Tabarre , Croix des Bouquets and Coteaux . In the town of Coteaux (south) 5 cases were recorded , reveals the head of epidemiology MSPP , Nathanael Fenelus .

The number of suspected cases is 67 he said reports of analyzes carried out by the national laboratory.

Executive Director of the MSPP . Charity Guirlene Raymond argues that the virus causes pain preventing the victim person to conduct such activities. Even if there is no direct treatment for this viral disease, doctor recommends Charity affected to consume a large amount of water people , rest and eat well . It advocates the use of paracetamol to reduce pain.

The health minister drew attention to the need for citizens involved in this effort to treat cottages which are a suitable breeding space for vectors of the virus.

LLM / Radio Metropole Haiti

http://www.metropolehaiti.com/metro...word=chikungunya&sid=0&critere=0&id=24154&p=1

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Haiti confirms 1,529 Chikungunya cases

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Health Ministry: Mosquito-borne virus spreads rapidly throughout Haiti, now 1,529 cases

Article by: Associated Press Updated: May 13, 2014

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti ? A mosquito-borne virus that was detected for the first time in Haiti last week has quickly spread throughout the Caribbean nation, a health official said Tuesday.

Some 1,529 cases of the chikungunya virus have been confirmed, said Ronald Singer, a spokesman for Haiti's health ministry. The bulk of the cases, about 900 of them, were found in the west department, where the capital of Port-au-Prince is located. Another 300 cases were confirmed in northwestern Haiti.

The new numbers seem to represent a startling jump over the past week. The health ministry said last Tuesday that lab results confirmed a mere 14 cases.

More: Star Tribune

 

[Pathfinder]

Re: Haiti confirms 2,978 Chikungunya cases

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Translation Google

Chikungunya Fever in net expansion: 2,978 cases reported as of May 17, but 50% of the population could be affected

5/21/2014 5:21:00 Author (s) The Editors

Haitian health authorities informed having identified 2978 Chikungunya fever cases until May 17, in the country.

According to Dr. Corvil Solomon, head of epidemiological surveillance at MSPP, this is a partial assessment, knowing that data is not yet available for the entire territory.

The western department remains the most affected with no less than 2255 cases, follow the North West and the South East with 317 and 203 cases, said Dr. Solomon respectively, announcing that in about 3 weeks, Haiti will achieve tests for the disease.

The fever may reach up to 50% of the population.
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http://www.radiotelevisioncaraibes...._nette_expansion_2978_cas_recens_s_au_17.html

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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Haiti - Health: More than 15,000 confirmed cases of chikungunya

01/06/2014 9:50:36

Friday, the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP) has met all departmental and central Directors. The objective was to raise awareness at the highest level, in the struggle, initiated against the chikungunya epidemic raging in Haiti. "You must commit to the highest level in the fight, because there risk in the remains. All government is sensitized against chikungunya, we have to get up to our task at MSPP, "said Dr. Marie Raymond Guirlaine Charity, Director General of the MSPP.

To facilitate interventions and fumigation and treatment breeding sites in the field, an average amount of 500,000 gourdes was made ​​available to each Departmental Directorate. Recent statistics on the chikungunya epidemic until Friday, May 30, 2014, show 15,000 people from the first 14 cases officially declared on May 6, despite the measures taken to circumscribe. These data [partial] were collected in 52 of 908 health institutions available to the MSPP across the country. At least one case of chikungunya was recorded in 95 (66%) of the 144 municipalities in the country said Dr. Raymond Charity.

For his part, Dr. Natael Fenelon, an epidemiologist at the Department of Epidemiology, Laboratory and research, the history of disease chikungunya, which began in Tanzania in 1953 and has traveled several countries in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean to settle in America. Meanwhile, M . Yvan Saint Jean, entomologist, in another presentation, presented the different types of mosquitoes as agents of transmission of dengue, malaria, filariasis and chikungunya, and dangerous to the environment of man. He recalled that the mosquito "Aedes aegypti", which transmits the chikungunya, is the same that transmits malaria.

Mr. St. John stressed the need to destroy all breeding sites, natural or artificial, to combat the vector of the disease. "All containers that can hold water in the environment or inside the houses shall be destroyed, as the eggs of Aedes can wait up to 18 months in a dry environment to await the arrival of the water to hatch.

Haiti Libre

 

[Pathfinder]

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Translation Google

Haiti-Health: Pets reservoir of chikungunya

Friday, June 6, 2014

P-au-P, June 6, 2014 [AlterPresse] --- Haitian health authorities recognize that pets are reservoirs of the virus transmitted by Aedes albopictus mosquito once they have been bitten by the bug.

"Just as the mosquito can bite a human, it may as well prick animals, [another] mammal (...) pets, dogs and cats," said to AlterPresse, Dr. Jocelyne Pierre-Louis responsible for family health at the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP).

The mosquito problem is not the person he bites but his need for blood and "he takes it where it is," said the manager.

However, she can not confirm whether the animal automatically develop the disease after the bite of albopictus.

Another category of animals living in close perimeters of houses seems to be also affected by the virus.

Several residents of Leogane (west) report that some of their animals living in close perimeters of houses, including goats, pigs and chickens died after showing symptoms of fever.

Coordination working group created to manage the Chikungunya is not yet able to provide information on whether or not the virus can attack cattle and goats among others.

In the context of the struggle for the eradication of the epidemic in the country, the Ministry of Public Health and Population has opted for a plan 5 axes.

This is a strategy that was initially composed of four axes: the vector control, the management of people, epidemiological surveillance and mobilization.

The fifth axis consisting giving paracetamol to population...

http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article16560

 

[Pathfinder]

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Haiti - Health : 23% inmates of the Petit-Go?ve are suffering Chikungunya

07/06/2014 11:03:36

The Princial Commissioner of L?og?ne, Jean-Alex Pierre-Louis, reported that 28 prisoners (23%) out of 123 of the Police Station of Petit-Go?ve, are suffering Chikungunya. Commissioner Pierre-Louis confessing his powerlessness faced this epidemic, spread by mosquitoes that enters cells and spares no one, calls for assistance to health authorities for sick prisoners who require care and medicines, stressing that "Detainees were already taken to Notre-Dame Hospital to receive necessary."

However, Notre-Dame Hospital that receives numerous cases of chikungunya from the city center and communal sections is overwhelmed and is unable to meet the needs of patients and for lack of available doctors and of enough drugs.
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http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-1...he-petit-goave-are-suffering-chikungunya.html

 

[Shiloh]

Re: Haiti - Epidemic of Chikungunya virus - 2014

Source: http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/ha...cantly-higher-than-official-paho-tally-85595/


Published On: Wed, Jun 11th, 2014
Outbreak News | By Robert Herriman
Haiti chikungunya numbers significantly higher than official PAHO tally

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) chikungunya statistics for the island of Haiti last June 6 seemed unusually low as the epidemic spreads across Hispaniola.

PAHO reported some 12,000 cases last Friday, raising some eyebrows. First, the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP) reported at the end of May, at least 15,000 chikungunya cases...