Dominican Republic: 2013 Cholera outbreaks

[Shiloh]

Source: http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o...49011&Itemid=1

Cholera Outbreak in Dominican Prison Kills Three

Dominican Republic penitentiary La VictoriaSanto Domingo, Feb 26 (Prensa Latina) At least three inmates of the Dominican Republic penitentiary La Victoria, on the outskirts of the capital, died up today with symptoms of cholera, assured relatives of the victims.

According to the complainants, other inmates also died and are in the National Institute of Forensic Pathology waiting to be identified...

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Dominican Republic: 2013 Cholera outbreaks

The AH1N1 flu virus puts health authorities on alert
...
The authorities also report 19 cases of cholera, of 985 suspected cases.

Of this number, 296 were sent to the lab and 70 cases and 7 deaths were confirmed.
...

http://www.diariolibre.com/dlenglish/2013/05/24/i385183_the-ah1n1-flu-virus-puts-health-authorities-alert.html

[Shiloh]

Re: Dominican Republic: 2013 Cholera outbreaks

Source: http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/loc...-San-Cristobal


Local - 24 August 2013, 9:50 AM
New cholera outbreak confirmed in San Cristobal

Santo Domingo.? Dominican health authorities yesterday confirmed a new cholera outbreak in San Cristobal (about 30 kilometers west of Santo Domingo), after the epidemic that has been ongoing in Haiti since October 2010...

[Shiloh]

Re: Dominican Republic: 2013 Cholera outbreaks

Source: http://www.14news.com/story/23294377...olera-outbreak

Water sources checked after cholera outbreak
Posted: Aug 29, 2013 8:12 PM EDT Updated: Aug 29, 2013 8:40 PM EDT
Posted by David James - email

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - -

Authorities in the Dominican Republic are checking the water in a city in the south of the Caribbean country after a sharp rise in cholera in recent days.

The director of the Ministry of Health's water department says cholera has sickened at least 93 people in the past week in San Cristobal. None of the cases has been fatal...

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Dominican Republic: 2013 Cholera outbreaks

Epidemiological Update
Cholera
21 November 2013

http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Epidemiological%20Update%20Cholera%2021%20November%202013.pdf

...
In the Dominican Republic, since the beginning of the epidemic (November 2010) through EW 45 of 2013, there have been a total of 31,206 suspected cholera cases, of which 462 died. Between EW 41 and EW 45, 116 additional suspected cholera cases were reported and 4 deaths. During the last two weeks, 12 of 32 provinces have registered suspected cholera cases; the provinces of Azua, Distrito Nacional, Puerto Plata, San Cristobal, Santiago, Santo Domingo and La Vega account for 92 % of the suspected cases during these two weeks.

In the past two EWs an increase in the number of the suspected cases has been recorded, this increase happened after the decline seen from EW 41 of 2013 (see figure 1). The fatality rate recorded in 2013 (2.2 %) continues to be higher than the fatality rate recorded in 2011 (1.7%) and in 2012 (0.8 %). Health authorities continue to implement corresponding response measures.
...