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Yucatan ports launched 'lifeline' against cholera
Merida, Yucatan. - Apply the WHO protocol in order to prevent entry from Cuba, of the disease.
Coral DiazMerida, Yucatan. - In addition to airports, International Health stepped up its surveillance in ports to prevent entry of cholera to the state by strengthening the inspection protocol that dictates the World Health Organization (WHO).
On Friday advised that the appearance of cholera cases in Cuba, where flights to Merida, strengthened surveillance measures at the international airport "Manuel Crescencio Rejon".
The coordinator of the Department of International Health, Arjona Guadalupe Gonzalez, said that in this instance comply with the protocol of international epidemiological surveillance in the border areas and adjacent international maritime territory.
"Given the situation, we are reinforcing the work normally done at ports and airports contribute with us other entities like the Department of Tourism, which is very committed and working closely from the A/H1N1 influenza," he said.
He explained that the monitoring agents also assist the Federal Police and the National Institute of Migration, as it is with regular users and regular or legal documentation, as well as undocumented insured are very high risk factor.
He said that international surveillance is given in a WHO international catalog and applies in all member countries.
"Therefore, when a notification, what we do is to strengthen the monitoring because the boats come from islands where the risk factor is high," he said.
The official pointed out that the most important is that you have had any risk factors and such monitoring has been strengthened with the other entities in the case of cruise ships, bulk carriers, oil merchants.
"We watch a lot of the landing of waste, which can only be inorganic, organic and that could fall with a special treatment against infection, but for now not allowed," he said.
Arjona Gonzalez said it is important to note that diseases like cholera are high risk and you can not keep out, so that responsibility for health is to mitigate and control any risk.
"It identifies the risk for an operational definition, which are the universal signs and symptoms that dictate the authorities and when we identify a suspect, isolate it, are followed up and whether to repatriate is made, but was not checked out" he said.
By bacteriaCholera is an acute, diarrheal illness caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which manifests as an intestinal infection. The disease has caused several epidemics, some of them practically global reach, such as that swept Europe and America in the early nineteenth century.
In January 1991 came an epidemic of cholera in several countries in South America, which spread quickly. The most recent outbreak recorded in Haiti, because of the earthquake in January 2010.
Cholera has been rare in industrialized countries over the past 100 years.
http://sipse.com/noticias/164846-yucatan-lanzan-puertos-salvavidas-contra-colera.html
Yucatan ports launched 'lifeline' against cholera
Merida, Yucatan. - Apply the WHO protocol in order to prevent entry from Cuba, of the disease.
Coral DiazMerida, Yucatan. - In addition to airports, International Health stepped up its surveillance in ports to prevent entry of cholera to the state by strengthening the inspection protocol that dictates the World Health Organization (WHO).
On Friday advised that the appearance of cholera cases in Cuba, where flights to Merida, strengthened surveillance measures at the international airport "Manuel Crescencio Rejon".
The coordinator of the Department of International Health, Arjona Guadalupe Gonzalez, said that in this instance comply with the protocol of international epidemiological surveillance in the border areas and adjacent international maritime territory.
"Given the situation, we are reinforcing the work normally done at ports and airports contribute with us other entities like the Department of Tourism, which is very committed and working closely from the A/H1N1 influenza," he said.
He explained that the monitoring agents also assist the Federal Police and the National Institute of Migration, as it is with regular users and regular or legal documentation, as well as undocumented insured are very high risk factor.
He said that international surveillance is given in a WHO international catalog and applies in all member countries.
"Therefore, when a notification, what we do is to strengthen the monitoring because the boats come from islands where the risk factor is high," he said.
The official pointed out that the most important is that you have had any risk factors and such monitoring has been strengthened with the other entities in the case of cruise ships, bulk carriers, oil merchants.
"We watch a lot of the landing of waste, which can only be inorganic, organic and that could fall with a special treatment against infection, but for now not allowed," he said.
Arjona Gonzalez said it is important to note that diseases like cholera are high risk and you can not keep out, so that responsibility for health is to mitigate and control any risk.
"It identifies the risk for an operational definition, which are the universal signs and symptoms that dictate the authorities and when we identify a suspect, isolate it, are followed up and whether to repatriate is made, but was not checked out" he said.
By bacteriaCholera is an acute, diarrheal illness caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which manifests as an intestinal infection. The disease has caused several epidemics, some of them practically global reach, such as that swept Europe and America in the early nineteenth century.
In January 1991 came an epidemic of cholera in several countries in South America, which spread quickly. The most recent outbreak recorded in Haiti, because of the earthquake in January 2010.
Cholera has been rare in industrialized countries over the past 100 years.
http://sipse.com/noticias/164846-yucatan-lanzan-puertos-salvavidas-contra-colera.html