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Cholera deaths in PNG believed to be about 100 says local priest
Posted at 22:22 on 17 November, 2010 UTC
A priest in Papua New Guinea believes the number of deaths from the cholera outbreak in Daru has risen to about 100.
The Post Courier reports Father, Vinod D?Mello, says more people are continuing to die because many villages are in isolated islands far from the nearest health facility...
Fears PNG cholera outbreak is spreading
November 20, 2010 - 5:59PM
A cholera outbreak on Papua New Guinea?s side of Torres Strait has been contained, but health officials fear the deadly bacteria is spreading inland.
PNG department of health officials say 30 villagers have died from cholera on Daru, a tiny remote island off the coast of PNG?s Western Province that is close to Australia?s Cape York...
PNG cholera outbreak in Daru stablising
Posted at 03:25 on 23 November, 2010 UTC
The outbreak of cholera in Daru, the capital of Papua New Guinea?s Western Province, appears to be stabilising.
A team from the World Health Organisation assessed the situation last week and as of yesterday, the number of cases was 870 in Daru Hospital and a total of 30 confirmed deaths...
Cholera ravages Torres Strait
Lindsay Murdoch DARWIN
November 26, 2010
AN OUTBREAK of cholera in the Torres Strait has spread to scores of islands and coastal villages in the Fly River delta area of Papua New Guinea's Western Province, infecting hundreds of people and killing more than 100.
The disease had already killed 32 people and infected 888 others on Daru, the most highly populated island in the Torres Strait. Many of the victims are children...
PNG cholera outbreak reaches Gulf Province leaving six dead
Posted at 19:22 on 25 November, 2010 UTC
The latest outbreak of cholera in Papua New Guinea is spreading, with the Post Courier newspaper saying six people have died in Gulf province in recent days...
PNG's cholera outbreak spreads
Updated November 30, 2010 20:49:27
The number of people affected by the recent cholera outbreak in Papua New Guinea is close to two thousand.
The original point of the outbreak is Daru, a tiny island off the coast of PNG's Western Province, where around one thousand cases have been documented. The situation is stabilizing there but it's now on the move emerging in villiages on the mainland between two districts.
Presenter: Sonja Heydeman
Speakers: Enoch Posanai, Executive Manager for Public Health, PNG Health Department
Cairns doctor's duty on PNG cholera frontline
Daniel Bateman
Monday, December 6, 2010
? The Cairns Post
A CAIRNS doctor worked by torchlight, just a few kilometres from Australia's border, to help prevent a cholera outbreak worsening and spreading.
GP Dr Anthony Mahler, who works part-time at the Cairns Cosmetic Clinic, has returned from a week-long humanitarian mission to Papua New Guinea helping treat patients in remote parts of PNG afflicted by the country's cholera outbreak.
Australia's border in the Torres Strait has been sealed with fears more than 100 PNG people may have died from the disease. The outbreak, which began in the country in July 2009, has infected at least 5000 people.
Hundreds of sick locals are currently being treated at the overflowing Daru Hospital, and other makeshift facilities...
The cholera outbreak in Papua New Guinea has now affected more than 27 hundred people.
300 people have lost their lives to the disease.
The original point of the outbreak was Daru, a tiny island off the coast of PNG's Western Province. The situation stabilized there but it's now on the move, emerging in villiages on the mainland.
Restrictions are still in place for travel between Australia's Torres Strait Islands and PNG.
