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Reportedly 15 dead of cholera in Cuba - 150+ cases- declared over- maybe not
More Cases of Cholera plus Dengue Discovered in Havana
July 10, 2012
HAVANA TIMES ? Sources on the island surveyed over the weekend reported at least five deaths from dengue and six cases of cholera in the Cuban capital, reported the Caf? Fuerte website...
Cholera cases in Cuba rise
By JUAN O. TAMAYO | McClatchy Newspapers
MIAMI ? Cuban public health officials say the number of confirmed cholera cases has risen from 85 to 110 and advised residents of the worst-hit area, the southeastern province of Granma, to avoid traveling.
Meanwhile, a dissident journalist in Santiago de Cuba, the island's second largest city, reported that hospital workers there told him eight people had died from cholera in Santiago hospitals...
Re: Reportedly 15 dead of cholera in Cuba- a case in Havana
Cholera in Cuba
Released: July 11 2012 Travel Health Notice
The Ministry of Public Health in Cuba has reported an increase in the number of cases of illness with diarrhea in some areas of the country due to high temperatures and heavy rainfall. The province with the highest incidence is Granma, with most cases being reported from the municipality of Manzanillo.
An investigation revealed that some of these cases are cholera. The city of Manzanillo has taken measures to control the situation and reduce the number of cases.
Cholerais an acute intestinal infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. People usually become infected from drinking or eating contaminated water or food. It is associated with watery diarrhea and rapid dehydration, which can be life-threatening.
Most travellers are at low risk. Travellers at high risk for cholera(travellers visiting areas of high risk with limited access to clean water and food) may benefit from vaccination and should consult a health care provider to discuss this option.
If you develop severe diarrhea and/or vomiting when you return to Canada
Seek medical attention immediately.
Infants, young children and the elderly and those with underlying health conditions are at greatest risk of dehydration.
Re: Reportedly 15 dead of cholera in Cuba- a case in Havana
[Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), full page: (LINK). Edited.]
First cholera outbreak in Cuba since 19th century, ECDC rapid risk assessment
13 Jul 2012 / ECDC
For the first time in almost 150 years, Cuba is reporting an outbreak of cholera. As of 12 July 2012, 85 cases of Vibrio cholerae were confirmed by the Cuban Ministry of Health.
Based on the available information at this stage, the outbreak appears to be mainly localised in the Granma province, in south-western Cuba, mostly in Manzanillo City. Despite control measures having been put in place by the Cuban health authorities, further cases within Cuba cannot be excluded at this stage.
ECDC has completed a rapid risk assessment to consider the risk for EU travellers travelling to Cuba to be infected with Vibrio cholerae. ECDC?s analysis is that the overall risk to European travellers to Cuba is low. Should the outbreak not spread beyond the Granma province, the risk of infection for European tourists visiting Cuba is negligible. If the outbreak spreads to other provinces, the risk of infection for European tourists should be reassessed. However, with appropriate precautionary measures, the overall risk of infection remains low, as is the risk for further spread of the infection upon return to Europe.
Visitors to Cuba should seek information the preventative measures they can take against cholera prior to travelling. Clinicians should keep the possibility of cholera in mind for travellers returning from Cuba who show clinical signs suggestive of this disease.
In 2010, there were approximately 810 000 European tourists, mostly from Italy, Spain, and Germany visiting Cuba. Around 58% of these tourists were visiting Cuba during the European winter months.
Globally, approximately 2.8 million cholera cases occur annually in endemic countries with nearly 91 000 deaths. In non endemic countries, the number of cases is estimated at 87 000 with 2 500 deaths. The major burden of cholera is located in southern Asia and Africa.
In the first cholera outbreak reported in 130 years, Cuba's health ministry confirmed 158 cases of the disease hitting the Caribbean island nation this month, according to Xinhua news agency.
The ministry first reported a cholera outbreak in Manzanillo, with 50 confirmed infections and three deaths.
It said in a statement Saturday that media has been working to keep the public informed about the situation. It said measures were being taken to avoid a spread of the disease.
According to Cuban medical records, the last cholera outbreak occurred 130 years ago in August 1882.
Re: Reportedly 15 dead of cholera in Cuba - 158 cases
Cuba cholera cases now stand at 170 confirmed and eight more suspected
The total number of confirmed cholera cases in Cuba now stands at 170 while eight more cases are suspected.
The numbers on Cuba?s cholera outbreak continued to grow over the weekend, with officials reporting 12 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 170, and eight new suspected cases in the southeastern province of Granma.
Cuba?s Public Health Ministry, in a statement published in the official news media on Saturday morning, declared that the outbreak was ?decreasing? with 158 confirmed cases and three deaths confirmed.
But the numbers provided by lead Granma province epidemiologist Ana Maria Batista during her appearance Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings on provincial television showed increases in all the categories.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Cholera cancels Cuban carnivals
HAVANA, Cuba, Friday July 20, 2012 ? Cuban authorities have suspended the traditional summer carnivals in the eastern cities of Bayamo and Manzanillo due to the outbreak of cholera in the region.
The annual celebrations, which were scheduled for August, were canceled "to avoid the spread of illnesses," according to a Communist Party official in Granma province.
While the cholera situation is said to be under control, authorities were concerned about possible contagion of the "floating population" attracted by the carnivals, a source in the Bayamo municipal government said.
The outbreak came to light last month in Manzanillo, a city of more than 130,000 people that has accounted for the majority of the 158 cases of cholera reported by Cuba's Public Health Ministry...
Re: Reportedly 15 dead of cholera in Cuba - 150+ cases
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The Cholera outbreak of the water will meet the Castraco, 15 dead, 237 and 10 410 cases suspected
POSTED BY CUBAOUT ⋅ AUGUST 11, 2012 ⋅
A brave report from the TV Channel NTN24H of Colombia in Cuba who slipped and went into the hospital regime Castraco completely belie this new lie on the control of the outbreak of Cholera. According to medical authorities and walking tours of hospitals that are already confirmed 15 the dead from cholera, 237 people have oficilmente cholera and 10,410 people are under suspicion until completion of the tests that have been made. This outbreak has permeated the barrier tended authorities in Granma and reached other provinces and especially in Havana .
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Un valiente reporte de la television Canal NTN24H de Colombia que se colaron en Cuba y se metieron en los hospitales desmienten totalmente al regimen Castraco en esta nueva mentira sobre el control…
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Cuba says cholera outbreak that took 3 lives is over
Published August 28, 2012
EFE
The Cuban government said that the cholera outbreak that erupted in June, killing three and infecting 417, is over, Communist Party daily Granma reported Tuesday.
"Ten days have passed since the latest confirmed case, whereby the Public Health Ministry says that this outbreak is over," the newspaper said of the epidemic that originated in Manzanillo, a city of 130,500 residents located some 900 kilometers (560 miles) east of Havana...
Posted on Tuesday, 09.25.12
Cuban government stays mum on new cholera reports
By Juan O. Tamayo jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com
Four weeks after the Cuban government announced that an outbreak of cholera in the eastern part of the island was over, there are unconfirmed reports of new cases popping up in two small towns.
Twenty-seven cases were reported in the municipality of San Luis, in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, and 19 more in the Bahia Honda municipality 35 miles west of Havana.
Roberto Gonz?lez, a dissident living in San Luis, said that area public health workers and residents have told him of the more than two dozen confirmed cases and 102 suspected cases of cholera in the municipality over the past two weeks...
Cuba: Hospital in quarantine over cholera outbreak
Via Hablemos Press, a dissident website in Havana: Hospital en cuarentena por brote de cólera. [Hospital in quarantine over cholera outbreak] The whole report, with my translation:
Ciego de Avila, 16 de octubre.- Desde el 14 de octubre, el Hospital provincial Antonio Base Giraola, del territorio Avileño, se encuentra en fase de semi cuarentena con solo visitas familiares a los pacientes ingresados los domingos de 2 a 4 de la tarde.
Ciego de Avila, October 16. Since October 14, Antonio Base Giraola Provincial Hospital is in a semi-quarantine, with families allowed to visit hospitalized relatives only on Sundays from 2:00 to 4:00 pm.
Parte de la policlínica de especialidades aledañas al citado centro asistencial médico está habilitada como cuerpo de guardias para atender a casos sospechosos de cólera, pues ya en el citado hospital provincial hay una veintena de casos sospechosos de cólera ingresados y una decenas de casos confirmado.
Part of the polyclinic of related specialties in the medical centre is equipped to attend to suspected cholera cases, since the hospital itself now has twenty suspected cases admitted and ten confirmed cases.
Según fuentes médicas el Avileño municipio de Venezuela al sur de la provincia, es donde ha ocurrido el brote a partir del consumo de pescado o tomar ostiones contaminados.
According to medical sources, the Avila municipality of Venezuela, in the south of the province, is where the outbreak occurred as a result of consuming contaminated fish or oysters.
The International Press Institute (IPI) is deeply concerned for the well-being of jailed Cuban journalist Calixto Ram?n Mart?nez, who has been on a hunger strike since Nov. 10 to protest prison conditions.
In a video statement released yesterday, Hablemos Press, the Havana-based independent news agency for which Mart?nez was a correspondent, said that the journalist was being held in Combinado del Este prison's ?Area 47?, known as the ?corridor of death? for its previous role in housing death-row inmates.
While information about Mart?nez's condition has been scarce, a Cuban political prisoner, Alexander Roberto Fern?ndez Rico, informed Hablemos Press in November that Mart?nez was being held naked in a ?punishment cell? and being given only a liter of water per day.
Mart?nez was arrested on Sept. 16 and later charged with insulting Fidel and Ram?n Castro under the country's ?contempt of authority? laws, known in the Spanish-speaking world as desacato. The journalist's arrest is thought to be releated to investigative coverage an outbreak of cholera and dengue fever on the island, though the Cuban government has provided no official explanation.
Cuba stays silent about deadly cholera outbreak
It?s the disease that the government doesn?t acknowledge, because it might deter tourists from coming to the island.
Cuba, Wednesday, July 27, 2011.
Javier Galeano / ASSOCIATED PRESS
By Juan O. Tamayo jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com
Cuban dissident Walter Clavel says that when he took his 2-year-old son to a hospital Wednesday with a case of diarrhea, the boy was tested for a sometimes fatal disease that the government is stubbornly refusing to acknowledge ? cholera.
Nurses told him the test was negative, and the boy was not quarantined in the three wards reserved for cholera patients at the North Pediatric Hospital in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, Clavel said.
Cuba, especially the eastern third of the island, is suffering through an alarming outbreak of cholera ? as well as the mosquito-borne dengue fever ? brewed in its decrepit water and sewer systems and fueled by Hurricane Sandy?s floods, according to residents...
Re: Reportedly 15 dead of cholera in Cuba - 150+ cases- declared over- maybe not
Please take note that I am not familiar with this source
Cholera Spreads in Cuba After Hurricane Sandy
Posted by News Editor in At Risk, Latest News, RSS on December 26, 2012 7:01 pm
HAVANA, Cuba, December 26, 2012 (ENS) ? A rise in cholera cases in the Cuban capital Havana is being traced back to parts of the country hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy, the worst natural disaster to strike Cuba in half a century.
The Cuban government is saying little about reported cases of cholera. But doctors who have recorded new cases of the disease during recent house-to-house inspections say the health ministry has declared a state of alert in the Jes?s Mar?a and Bel?n communities of Habana Vieja municipality.
Habana Vieja ? Old Havana ? is a popular tourist area in the city center.
?They?ve found 47 cases in Habana Vieja municipality,? said a doctor, who requested anonymity. ?Thirty-three of them originate from the eastern provinces.?
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A local doctor said he suspects the government is holding off on officially announcing a cholera outbreak because it might deter tourists from visiting Havana?s old town.
In three provinces ? Santiago de Cuba, Las Tunas and Guant?namo ? residents say some municipalities have been placed under quarantine.
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Re: Reportedly 15 dead of cholera in Cuba - 150+ cases- declared over- maybe not
13 January 2013 Last updated at 03:10 ET
Cholera fear in Cuba as officials keep silent
By Sarah Rainsford
BBC News, Havana
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'Dozens' of admissions
Doctors are now making door-to-door enquiries in Havana and anyone displaying possible cholera symptoms is being tested. Suspected cases are being sent to the Tropical Medicine Institute, the IPK.
"All our wards are dealing with this issue - they are almost full," an IPK employee told the BBC by telephone, before saying she was not authorised to comment further.
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Pharmacies across the city are now selling water purification drops, rationed to two small bottles per person.
But in the tourist heart of Old Havana, cafes and restaurants remain open and the streets are still full of mobile food and drink vendors.
Most say they have heard rumours of a cholera outbreak in Cerro and are taking extra precautions, but none have received any official instructions.
The WHO stresses "public communication" as a key tool in controlling any cholera outbreak.
In Havana, that task has so far been left to local doctors who are very connected to their communities.
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