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Spanish to English translation
April 25, 2011
Venezuela adds 10,673 malaria cases in 2011
Malaria is transmitted through the bite of wild mosquitoes. (Photo Archive)
According to official figures from the Ministry of Health, in the first quarter of 2011 in Venezuela there have been 10,673 cases of malaria, 23 percent less than last year for the same date. The highest rate of malaria at present the states of Bol?var, in 9086, Amazonas and Delta Amacuro with 806, with 451 cases, which account for 97 percent of cases occurred in the country.
The coordinator of the Malaria Control Program in Carabobo Carabobe?o by the Institute for Health (Health Institute), Jesus Toro Landaeta, said that 50 percent of those affected are people aged 15 to 45 years old with a male predominance 67 percent.
This is mainly "reiterated" to the large presence of uncontrolled gold miners operating in malarious areas of these states, and this disorderly movement of people makes the diagnosis and treatment of malarial cases, increasing the transmissibility and lethality of this disease .
Researcher argues that the use of eco-degrading practices gold mining produces large puddles of water that support the growth of high anopheline transmitters, as well as pollution of rivers with mercury and other toxins.
Day
Monday April 25 marks the "World Malaria Day, established by the 60th World Health Assembly in 2007, whose presence in Venezuela is strongly associated with disorganized exploitation of gold and diamond in the south, as Most endemic in our history, according to studies by Toro Landaeta, specialist Malariology and Environmental Sanitation.
The research detailed in the last decade in Venezuela are being presented between 30 and 40 thousand cases a year, because this disease caused by blood parasites called plasmodia transmitted from person to person through the bite of wild mosquitoes genus Anopheles, is associated with a mining operation without any control by the Government.
Malaria has been in Venezuela without interruption since 1936, achieving malarious areas and reduce mortality significantly, but not the total elimination of the disease.
Strict monitoring
In Carabobo no malaria transmission. However, it maintains strict surveillance, since the entity inhabited by many people moving to the state of Bolivar, in search of this precious metal, returning some of them suffering from the disease. Against this background, Sanitation Malariology and remain vigilant against the return of the day off for Easter, especially in the municipalities Valencia, Guacara and San Diego.
Toro Landaeta Jesus warns that a resounding defeat this evil in Venezuela, one must begin with the system of regional mining activity and the promotion of endogenous development zones in border states, then continue with the transformation of the traditional control program Venezuelan malaria, which is a bold project for the elimination of malaria in the country.
To achieve this, recommended Toro Landaeta, the Health Ministry should take appropriate personnel, an arsenal of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics advanced and environmentally acceptable methods of vector control, which can interrupt the contact between humans and the insects that spread malaria . All this with the active participation of a community effectively informed. (WB)
Spanish to English translation
April 25, 2011
Venezuela adds 10,673 malaria cases in 2011
Malaria is transmitted through the bite of wild mosquitoes. (Photo Archive)
According to official figures from the Ministry of Health, in the first quarter of 2011 in Venezuela there have been 10,673 cases of malaria, 23 percent less than last year for the same date. The highest rate of malaria at present the states of Bol?var, in 9086, Amazonas and Delta Amacuro with 806, with 451 cases, which account for 97 percent of cases occurred in the country.
The coordinator of the Malaria Control Program in Carabobo Carabobe?o by the Institute for Health (Health Institute), Jesus Toro Landaeta, said that 50 percent of those affected are people aged 15 to 45 years old with a male predominance 67 percent.
This is mainly "reiterated" to the large presence of uncontrolled gold miners operating in malarious areas of these states, and this disorderly movement of people makes the diagnosis and treatment of malarial cases, increasing the transmissibility and lethality of this disease .
Researcher argues that the use of eco-degrading practices gold mining produces large puddles of water that support the growth of high anopheline transmitters, as well as pollution of rivers with mercury and other toxins.
Day
Monday April 25 marks the "World Malaria Day, established by the 60th World Health Assembly in 2007, whose presence in Venezuela is strongly associated with disorganized exploitation of gold and diamond in the south, as Most endemic in our history, according to studies by Toro Landaeta, specialist Malariology and Environmental Sanitation.
The research detailed in the last decade in Venezuela are being presented between 30 and 40 thousand cases a year, because this disease caused by blood parasites called plasmodia transmitted from person to person through the bite of wild mosquitoes genus Anopheles, is associated with a mining operation without any control by the Government.
Malaria has been in Venezuela without interruption since 1936, achieving malarious areas and reduce mortality significantly, but not the total elimination of the disease.
Strict monitoring
In Carabobo no malaria transmission. However, it maintains strict surveillance, since the entity inhabited by many people moving to the state of Bolivar, in search of this precious metal, returning some of them suffering from the disease. Against this background, Sanitation Malariology and remain vigilant against the return of the day off for Easter, especially in the municipalities Valencia, Guacara and San Diego.
Toro Landaeta Jesus warns that a resounding defeat this evil in Venezuela, one must begin with the system of regional mining activity and the promotion of endogenous development zones in border states, then continue with the transformation of the traditional control program Venezuelan malaria, which is a bold project for the elimination of malaria in the country.
To achieve this, recommended Toro Landaeta, the Health Ministry should take appropriate personnel, an arsenal of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics advanced and environmentally acceptable methods of vector control, which can interrupt the contact between humans and the insects that spread malaria . All this with the active participation of a community effectively informed. (WB)