Venezuela reports 278 cases of cholera

[Gert van der Hoek]

Five suspected cases of cholera detected in Caracas

Patients who develop symptoms of cholera are being held at the Centro Medico Docente La Trinidad.

Giuliana Chiappe | EL UNIVERSAL

Wednesday January 26, 2011 9:43 a.m.

Caracas .- Although not yet obtained final results, there is suspicion of five Venezuelans belong to the same family have contracted cholera during a trip to the Dominican Republic. This was reported by Jose Felix Oletta, former Minister of Health. Patients who develop symptoms of cholera are being held at the Centro Medico Docente La Trinidad.

However, doctors in this medical center have not confirmed case of cholera or any other gastrointestinal disease are still waiting for laboratory results, expressed as a source of that institution.

Read more (Spanish) - eluniversal

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Venezuela - Five suspected cases of cholera detected in Caracas

Re: Venezuela - Five suspected cases of cholera detected in Caracas

26 January 2011 Last updated at 18:05 ET

Cholera alert reaches Venezuela via Dominican Republic

More than 20 Venezuelans have contracted cholera after visiting the Dominican Republic, the Venezuelan health ministry has said.

The patients were taken to hospital in Caracas after showing symptoms and were being kept in quarantine.

They had travelled to the Dominican Republic for a wedding.

Cholera reached the Dominican Republic last November from neighbouring Haiti, where an epidemic has killed almost 4,000 people.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Venezuela - 20 cases of cholera

Re: Venezuela - 20 cases of cholera

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Published: 01/27/2011

More than two dozen Venezuelans have contracted cholera in the Dominican Republic


The Venezuelan Minister of Health, Eugenia Sader, confirmed Wednesday that more than two dozen of Venezuelans who have recently traveled to the Dominican Republic, are hospitalized, receiving medical treatment because they were infected with cholera.

"We suspect cases and positive cases of cholera in the country. We want to inform people that there must be peace for all cases that have so far are from people who attended meetings of relatives in the Dominican Republic," the minister said.

Eugenia Sader said that 21 Venezuelans are admitted in three clinics in Caracas and other Venezuelan 12 infected with the disease are hospitalized in the Dominican Republic.

The minister explained in a press conference that these patients are part of a group of about 400 people, all of Venezuela, on January 22 that traveled to the Dominican Republic to attend a wedding.

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[Tonka]

Re: Venezuela - 20 cases of cholera

Re: Venezuela - 20 cases of cholera

http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=258859&Itemid=1

Spanish to English translation

Venezuela adopting measures to control cholera
Caracas, Jan 27 (Prensa Latina)

With the existence of two positive cases and 19 suspected cholera, Venezuelan health authorities take appropriate action, said today Miriam Morales, vice minister of Public Health Networks.

We are talking about a situation imported, which has individual and collective connotation, hence the importance that we get to more people to transcend the disease to different sectors, said Morales.

According to the official, the disease comes from a group that the January 22 attended a family celebration in the Dominican Republic, where they met over 400 people.

Soon after, he said, these people, some identified and returned to different cities of Venezuela.

They began to show symptoms and samples were taken in a timely manner to bring them to carry out treatment, he added.

The day before, the Health Minister Eugenia Sader said the risk of an epidemic is low, because it has an efficient network of drinking water.

He warned that all suspects involved both positive and proper treatment, but it is likely that the rest had not yet shown symptoms and be carriers of the disease.

Reported in the Dominican Republic made the cultivation of food served during the holiday and found to be contaminated with the virus.

Sadr called on those attending the celebration to get in touch immediately with the health authorities to conduct an epidemiological fence and thus prevent the disease is transmitted to others.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Venezuela reports 37 cases of cholera

Re: Venezuela reports 37 cases of cholera

Venezuela reports 37 cholera cases

Venezuela's health minister said Thursday that 37 people have been treated for cholera in the South American nation, state-run media said.

The confirmed cases were among a group of 452 people who attended a family gathering in the Dominican Republic, said Eugenia Sader, Venezuela's minister of health.

All 37 people were treated and are doing well, she said in a news conference carried on VTV.

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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Venezuela reports 37 cases of cholera

Re: Venezuela reports 37 cases of cholera

Venezuela's Confirmed Cholera Cases Increases To More Than 100
First Published Friday, 28 January 2011 10:22 pm - ? 2011 Dow Jones

By Ezequiel Minaya
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
CARACAS -(Dow Jones)- The confirmed cases of cholera in Venezuela have reached 111, with potentially hundreds of other untreated carriers "spreading the disease without even knowing it," said the country's health minister Friday.
Health authorities haven't given any indication that the intestinal infection has actually spread in Venezuela. All of the confirmed patients were part of a group of 452 Venezuelans who were exposed to contaminated food at a large social gathering in the Dominican Republic last week.

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[Tonka]

Re: Venezuela reports 111 cases of cholera

Re: Venezuela reports 111 cases of cholera

http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/internacional/noticias/son-129-casos-colera-en-venezuela

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International | news | Friday, January 28, 2011:

Are 129 cases of cholera in Venezuela
By: Elpais.com.co I EP

The number of infected with cholera arrived on Friday to 111 in Venezuela and 18 other countries after many wedding guests in a luxury coastal resort in the Dominican Republic locusts ate contaminated with the bacteria.

Until Thursday night, "we had already counted and 111 people receiving treatment," said Health Minister Eugenia Sader, the regional channel Telesur. However, only 27 people are hospitalized in private hospitals and the rest received drugs without being hospitalized, said the minister.

The number of infected in Venezuela increased rapidly after the government said Thursday there were 37 adult patients. The Dominican authorities said, meanwhile, seven Venezuelans and three Dominicans were treated there. There were also six cases in the United States, two in Madrid and one in Mexico.

Venezuelan officials sought to avoid an epidemic, as the list of invitees to the party was 452 people, the minister said Sadr, who reported cases in Madrid and Mexico.

Later, health officials in Massachusetts, where Boston, said that six residents had become ill after attending the wedding, but had been discharged. There were fears that the disease is spreading, official spokeswoman Julia Hurley.

The goal of the Venezuelan authorities is that all participants "get the treatment and can make an epidemiological fence," said Sader. To that end, he urged them to communicate with the authorities, because "we have confirmed the presence of the bacteria ... in the food consumed."

The Dominican authorities said Thursday that the wedding guests on January 22 were sickened by eating lobster caught near the border with Haiti, in the town of Pedernales. The party was made in a private home in the posh resort of Casa de Campo in the Dominican south coast.

Haiti has suffered thousands of cases of cholera in recent months, but the Health Ministry said that lobsters and other shellfish are natural reservoirs of the bacteria and therefore should be cooked at least 70 degrees Celsius. There are fears that cholera has reached the Dominican coast, he added.

The Dominican authorities said Friday that three Dominicans and Venezuelans seven were treated in that country. One of the Dominicans was the son of an employee who worked at the party and took some food home.
The other two, the only infected whose identity is known, are the construction and tourism entrepreneur and Manuel Fernando Hazoury Peynado, son of the late President Jacinto Peynado.

"There were very few Dominicans at the wedding, said a spokesman for the Vice Ministry of Public Health, Luis Garcia, told The Associated Press. "About 90% of the guests were Venezuelans and only came to this party."
The guests left the country within two days after the wedding, which would coincide with the period of incubation of the bacteria, so that many have no symptoms, he added.

Amid the curiosity aroused by a case that appears to involve wealthy families of Venezuela, the Dominican authorities have refused to identify the owner of the residence where the party was held.

"All foods, beverages, ice and other supplies were hired directly by the host of the wedding to third parties outside of Casa de Campo", said in a statement Friday the company that manages residential and tourist complex.

Cholera, which generates a profound dehydration, diarrhea and vomiting pronounced, is transmitted by consuming food or drinks contaminated with the bacterium vibrio cholerae, which is often spread by human feces.

The cholera outbreak in the island of Spanish, shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, began late last year in the first. Since then, some 4,000 people have died and more than 200,000 had the disease in Haiti. In the Dominican Republic, there were over 200 cases, including a Haitian immigrant who died.

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Venezuela reports 135 cases of cholera

Re: Venezuela reports 135 cases of cholera

Caracas, January 31, 2011

135 people treated for cholera

On Monday, Health Minister Eugenia Sader, said there have been 135 cases of cholera which are already under medical treatment.

It also reported that all those who have had the symptoms of the disease are the people who traveled over January 22 to Dominican Republic.


Finally, he called to the medical staff to be vigilant with the cases and thus generate the same report them to the ministry.

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[Tonka]

Re: Venezuela reports 135 cases of cholera

Re: Venezuela reports 135 cases of cholera

http://www.entornointeligente.com/resumen/resumen-completo.php?items=1087255

Spanish to English translation

317 Venezuelans should be treated

Posted at 06:45 AM on January 31, 2011 | Latest News
Of the 452 Venezuelans who traveled to the Dominican Republic on Saturday 22 January and ate food contaminated with cholera bacteria, the Ministry of Health has provided treatment to 135, so 317 left to be positioned to realize the epidemic siege.

27 people have been hospitalized, 40 were treated on an outpatient basis and 68 were asymptomatic patients. Until now, those affected live in the states of Lara, Miranda and the Capital District.

In recent statements, the health minister, Eugenia Sader, has clarified that Venezuela is experiencing a "flare imported" from cholera because people bought all the bacteria out of the country (on the Caribbean island), and the epidemiological fence will be completed when 452 Venezuelans have been treated, the protocol needed to cut the transmission of bacteria through their feces (occurs even without symptoms).



Help PAHO. Sader has also explained that "the moment we have an indigenous case, namely that some of these people who came to this conclusion to transmit this bacterium to another Venezuelan who did not travel, there would be talking about an epidemic that we "according to information published by AVN.

The recommendations of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), during epidemics are not given antibiotics because it can cause massive bacterial resistance and does not stop the spread, so the approach would be different from today.

Following the announcement by the Minister Sader on imported outbreak, the PAHO representative in the country, George Jenkins, said the Venezuelan government has "acted responsibly" and that through working together to Venezuela PAHO provided updated medical treatment being used in Haiti and the Dominican Republic to combat the strain that is present in both countries and that would be the same as that acquired in Venezuela.

PAHO also provided the country with reagents for laboratory tests that identify the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

 

[Tonka]

Re: Venezuela reports 135 cases of cholera

Re: Venezuela reports 135 cases of cholera

http://eltiempo.com.ve/venezuela/ba...o-casos-autoctonos-de-colera-en-el-pais/11689

Spanish to English translation

Sader Minister: There has been no indigenous cases of cholera in the country
02/01/2011 5:20 a.m. A bulletin issued by the office of Health shows that, as of Monday, 144 Venezuelans were treated against bacteria Vibrio chorelae.

Anna Teresa P. Pozzolungo

ader hopes that everyone attending the wedding please contact the Ministry
Photo: AVN
CARACAS .- On Monday came to 144 the number of people being treated for cholera in the country.

As reported by the Epidemiological Surveillance Division of the Ministry of Health, 27 people require hospitalization, 47 required outpatient care and 70 had no symptoms (dehydration, severe diarrhea and vomiting).

According to the health office holder, Eugenia Sader, all cases of cholera are imported and specifically the Dominican Republic.

"Until now we had no case of a person that has been contaminated in Venezuela," said Sader.

On January 22, 452 Venezuelans attended a wedding in the resort Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic. During the feast, the guests ate food contaminated lobster-specifically with the bacterium Vibrio Chorelae.

Authorities said that the crustaceans were captured in the town of Pedernales, near the border with Haiti, where a cholera epidemic.

The hotel where the reception was made public a statement in which it clarified that all services of the party (food, beverages, ice and other supplies) were hired directly by the host.

The celebration would have been made to celebrate the union of Mercedes Borberg (daughter of the executive of Nestl? in Venezuela, Eduardo Mendoza Borberg) and Rafael Zaji.

Mandatory reporting

The Minister of Health indicated that more than 400 people who had contact with infected food in that country, some could not be contacted (308) because they have no phone number. From there he insisted that they come in contact with the health office.

He said that a group of these citizens who traveled to Cuba on private jets, so that stressed the importance of providing timely information they provide treatment poderles.

Sader told health professionals that suspected cases of cholera are "mandatory reporting" to prevent an epidemic.

Recalled the existence of the line 0800 Monitor (8444526) to serve potential patients with the disease and stressed the importance of washing hands before and after using the bathroom, wash fruits and vegetables, cooking food thoroughly and chlorinating water (placing three drops of bleach in a liter of water) as preventive measures.

The Network of Scientific Medical Societies in Venezuela, where epidemiological alert 170, expressed fears that cholera is spread by lack of official information (campaigns). Although not reported the first case of infection in the country, the organization believes he could avoid the entry of disease into the country.

They said that since the beginning of the cholera outbreak in Haiti and the Dominican Republic in October 2010, the institution sought to take preventive action. However, claims that "it is increasingly difficult to obtain information from official sources. In the case of health, the data is essential to ensure that right and make it easier for citizens to know the risks."

Emphasize the need to address sanitation in shelters, since they might consider becoming foci of the disease.
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[Shiloh]

Re: Venezuela reports 185 cases of cholera

Re: Venezuela reports 185 cases of cholera

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Venezuela treating 185 for cholera

(AFP) ? 29 minutes ago

CARACAS ? Venezuela raised Tuesday to 185 the number of nationals being treated for cholera after contracting the disease at a Caribbean wedding, while playing down fears over its spread.

The infections occurred when some 450 Venezuelans attended a wedding last month in the Dominican Republic, which borders Haiti, where an epidemic of the waterborne bacterial disease has left thousands dead...

 

[Tonka]

Re: Venezuela reports 185 cases of cholera

Re: Venezuela reports 185 cases of cholera

http://www.analitica.com/va/sintesis/nacionales/4591064.asp

Spanish to English translation

Min-Health: Work against cholera has been effective
ultimasnoticias.com.ve

Wednesday, February 2, 2011


The epidemiological fence has been done with the Venezuelans who acquired cholera bacteria in the Dominican Republic has been "100% efficient", because until now there has been no indigenous case, ie no Venezuelan acquired infection in Venezuela, said Health Minister, Eugenia Sader, who yesterday gave a press conference to update information on imported cholera outbreak in the country.

Sader said that if within 15 days after the infection occurred, a period in which people with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae the organism can spread through their feces and contaminated water, will release a study to determine if the bacteria is circulating in the country or otherwise, to certify that there is anger and that we managed to contain the outbreak.

On this, the Deputy Minister of Public Health Network, Miriam Morales, explained that the study will do next week (15 days are met on 6 February), will choose a random day and go to hospitals and clinics, as well as public markets to take random samples. In the case of health centers, addressed to people who come for consultation by having a box of diarrhea or dehydration, while the markets will take samples of "high-risk foods."

The results will be in 24 or 48 hours, and after this special study, the Health Min-epidemiological surveillance will continue as we have done all these years, said Morales, who also clarified that the research will be done in the states there have been cases where suspects are Lara, Zulia, Anzo?tegui (in all cases these were discarded), Miranda and the Capital District.

"Unknown universe." Of the 452 people who attended the celebration in the Dominican Republic, 185 have been contacted and treated medically. Of these, 27 required hospitalization (all are high), 48 had been treated on an outpatient basis and 110 asymptomatic cases. Additionally, 673 people have called the 0800-WATCHING (8444526) but only 11 attended the party.

While there are still 267 people on treatment, Sader said yesterday that it can not really say how many are missing, because 452 is the number of guests at the party, but several of them took companions and others attended, in this context is a universe we do not know, "he said.

However, as the bacteria lives in the intestines of the person for 15 days and after that time the body is controlled and eliminated, the risk of spread decreases. That is why the study will last the two weeks.

Morales said they would wait 15 days because the symptoms appear between 24 hours and 10 days after acquiring the bacteria, and in this period were 5 days of forecast.

On the possibility of asymptomatic carriers have some bacteria in your body for months, Morales said that this happens very rarely, very rarely, and it is not common, and recalled that Min-Health studies around the clock to make sure that the Vibrio cholerae is not in Venezuela.

 

[Tonka]

Re: Venezuela reports 185 cases of cholera

Re: Venezuela reports 185 cases of cholera

http://www.el-nacional.com/www/site...sos-de-cólera,-28-requirieron-hospitalización

Spanish to English translation

Health February 3, 2011 | 6:42 pm - By AVN
Ministry of Health: In 239 cases of cholera, 28 required hospitalization
The owner of the portfolio, Eugenia Sader, reported that only one person remains under medical supervision in a private clinic, but in optimum health

Health Minister Eugenia Sader | El Nacional / Juan Camacho
The 239 people who until Thursday had been treated for cholera under the group of 452 who traveled to the Dominican Republic. According to the newspaper report provided by the Ministry of Health, of the 239 contacted, 58 had mild symptoms and were treated as outpatients, 153 were asymptomatic and 28 required hospitalization.

The health minister, Eugenia Sader, said of the 28 that require hospitalization only one remains under medical supervision in a private clinic, but in optimum health, while "others are already high."

He indicated that 100% of cases contacted for treatment are part of the family group that traveled to the Dominican Republic on 22 January.

The minister reiterated his call for the general population so that at any suspicious symptoms, vomiting and diarrhea, go to the nearest health center, public or private, to receive treatment free or communicate through line WATCHING 0800 (8444516 .)
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[Tonka]

Re: Venezuela reports 239 cases of cholera

Re: Venezuela reports 239 cases of cholera

http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=261509&Itemid=1
Spanish to English translation

Amounted to 245 people served by cholera in Venezuela

Caracas, February 5 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan authorities attended in the last hours to six people from cholera, bringing to 245 the number of the total of 450 treated who came into contact with the bacteria in the Dominican Republic today confirmed the Ministry of Health .

According to a statement of the portfolio, 28 were hospitalized, 61 were given outpatient care and 156 are symptomatic auque were also subjected to free treatment provided by the Government.

The Health Ministry reiterated the call to those who have yet to present the group in late January at a party participated in the Caribbean country, where they came into contact with food contaminated by Vibrio cholerae.

Starts here next week sampling in medical centers and markets to determine if you drive in the country the dangerous bacteria.

So far, health authorities rule out the existence of indigenous cases.

In addition to the systematic information to the population, the Government established an epidemiological fence including monitoring the country's border crossings.

 

[Tonka]

Re: Venezuela reports 245 cases of cholera

Re: Venezuela reports 245 cases of cholera

http://www.talcualdigital.com/Avances/Viewer.aspx?id=47801&secid=28
Spanish to English translation

Forward | The Nation | 04/02/2011 1:16:31 PM
Coming soon: Cholera in Zulia

Health authorities in the activated entity an epidemiological fence at what they see as an "imminent arrival of cholera"

Zulia health authorities triggered an epidemiological fence at what they have termed "an imminent cholera outbreak Zulia.

Regional Health Director stated that case but have not yet activated the fence with a permanent monitoring because the "bacteria is very close. "

He stated that the surveillance was strengthened at various airports Zulia. "Everyone coming from the Dominican Republic are studied. "

In a meeting with all heads of public and private hospitals, epidemiologists and specialists to follow the guidelines issued by the presence of cholera cases. It was reported that the state has the medicine to treat patients, but hydrating serum deficit.

 

[Tonka]

Re: Venezuela reports 245 cases of cholera

Re: Venezuela reports 245 cases of cholera

http://calidaddevida.eluniversal.com/2011/02/08/ten_art_red-cientifica-duda_2185118.shtml
Spanish to English translation

Scientific Network doubts effectiveness of the cholera epidemic siege
Warn high risk of infection if not treated all exposed
EL UNIVERSAL
Tuesday February 8, 2011 12:00 AM
If not identified and treated each of the 452 attendees at this wedding made in the Dominican Republic and imported cases of cholera in Venezuela, any epidemiological fence is activated will be inefficient.

So consider the management of the Network of Scientific Medical Societies of Venezuela, who warned, in an epidemiological alert 171, still a high risk of emerging indigenous cases (infected in the same country).

"To ensure that the cholera epidemic siege to be effective, it is essential first to identify the whereabouts and clinical and epidemiological situation of each and every one of the exposed" they said in the document signed by doctors and Jos? F?lix Oletta Ana Carvajal, directors of the Network

According to the latest report by the Ministry of Health of Venezuela, have been identified only 245 of the 452 attendees at this event in which the seafood consumed carriers of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. "Failure to locate, treat and prophylactically treat people exposed to 209 so that the threat of spread of the cholera outbreak," they said. GCH

 

[Shiloh]

Re: Venezuela reports 278 cases of cholera

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110209-720304.html

* FEBRUARY 9, 2011, 7:11 P.M. ET

Venezuelan Health Authorities Report 278 Cholera Cases
By Ezequiel Minaya
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES


CARACAS, Venezuela (Dow Jones)--Venezuela listed 278 cases of cholera late Wednesday, with possibly more than a hundred additional carriers yet to be treated, but the country seemed to have the medical emergency under control, according to a local representative of the Pan American Health Organization...

 

[Tonka]

Re: Venezuela reports 278 cases of cholera

http://tiempolibre.eluniversal.com/2011/02/15/ten_art_confirmaron-el-coler_2191704.shtml
Spanish to Eng. translation

Cholera confirmed in 38 patients
According to PAHO, the bacteria were found in at least 38 of the 92 symptomatic

Giuliana Chiappe | EL UNIVERSAL
Tuesday February 15, 2011 12:00 AM

Only two days had elapsed after the wedding celebration of a couple of Venezuela in Dominican Republic, where two people were the overwhelming symptoms of the disease cholera.

Laboratory tests confirmed that, indeed, carried the bacterium Vibrio cholerae , which spread cholera, intestinal infection that can lead to death within hours from dehydration. On January 24 both were hospitalized at the Centro M?dico Docente La Trinidad. There were two adults, suffering from "very abundant watery diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration," according to the medical replicated in Epidemiology 172 Warning Network of Scientific Medical Societies of Venezuela.

On 25 January the Ministry of Health officially identified them as patients with cholera. For the January 26 and 21 people had symptoms of the disease. All had attended the party in La Romana, where shellfish and lobsters consumed undercooked, infected with the bacteria and fish in Pedernales, near the border with Haiti where already identified cases of cholera.

The authorities asked, immediately, that the 452 Venezuelans who attended the party were reported but no symptoms. For the January 26, a day later, there were 21 who were asymptomatic. So far, according to the latest report by the Ministry of Health has reported 278 of the 452 guests at the party. The cases occurred in the Capital District, Miranda and Lara but not all had confirmed the presence of Vibrio cholerae .

"The 92 people who reported symptoms have an epidemiological link and are suspected of imported cholera. Among them, 38 were identified as bacteria are confirmed cases," said the Red Alert Scientific, based on a report from the Organization Pan American Health Organization.

According to the recount conducted, of the 278 patients, 92 patients developed symptoms. Of these, 28 required hospitalization due to advanced dehydration, 64 were treated as outpatients and 186 people were treated prophylactic doses of antibiotics that attack bacteria and reduce the risk of contagion.

Although the Ministry of Health has stated that all cases are imported, the Science Network has said that although "no indigenous cases have been confirmed in Venezuela, will conduct research in Lara, Vargas, T?chira and the Capital District."

 

[Shiloh]

Re: Venezuela reports 278 cases of cholera

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Venezuela cholera outbreak contained: official
(AFP) ? 1 hour ago

CARACAS ? The government of Venezuela has said that it had contained a cholera outbreak that at its peak sickened hundreds of its citizens, who caught the disease at a wedding in the Dominican Republic.

Officials in Caracas said they planned to implement a followup program this week to verify that every remnant of the disease had been completely eradicated throughout the country, but were confident that they had halted its spread...