Dengue death toll rises to 59 in Dominican Republic

Via Xinhua :

" The death toll from dengue fever in the Dominican Republic, where some 8,704 cases of the disease have been registered, has risen to 59 so far this year, according to a Health Ministry report released Thursday.

Dengue fever has mostly affected the northern, central and southern regions of the country, including the capital, Santo Domingo, where 76 percent of cases reported in the past month were located, the report said.

In the past week alone, the health sector reported three deaths and 602

cases of infection. According to local press, one of the victims was a three-year-old boy from eastern Santo Domingo."

Cholera Victims Increase in Dominican Republic

Article via Prensa Latina :

" The cholera outbreak that emerged in the southern Dominican province of San Cristobal since more than a week, has affected 127 people until today, according to medical sources.
The disease has affected 64 men and the medical assistance is divided in three plans, says Miguel Geraldino, director at Juan Pablo Pina Hospital, in the capital of the territory.

The number of cases is growing because preventative measures taken are fresh, according to authorities who prohibit swimming and fishing in rivers.

Five days ago, when 67 cased were reported, Health Minister, Freddy Hidalgo stated that the situation were under control."

Dominican Republic, Haiti join hands to uproot cholera

Article via Xinhua :

" The Dominican Republic and Haiti Wednesday launched a joint plan aimed at eliminating cholera, which has claimed more than 7,000 lives in both countries since October 2010.

The efforts were backed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Dominican officials said.

The plan, "Call to action: the Hispaniola without cholera", aims to improve sanitary and living conditions of the Haiti people who face herculean reconstruction work following a devastating earthquake in the country on Jan. 12, 2010, that killed 220,000 people and displaced over 1 million."

Cholera deaths increase to 109 in Dominican Republic

Via Xinhua :

" The number of deaths caused by cholera in the Dominican Republic have increased to 109, and there are 15,876 suspect cases, according to government figures released on Friday.

Public Health Ministry said in a statement that the intensity of the outbreak has been decreasing since six weeks ago, but the region of Gran Santo Domingo, which includes the Dominican capital city, still faces a serious epidemic situation.

The government is developing preventive measures which include informing the population, careful observation of diarrhea cases, providing drinkable water and building new public toilets as part of efforts to contain the outbreak, it added.

The latest Cholera outbreak appeared in the Dominican Republic last November, a month after cases were reported in Haiti."

Cholera death toll rises in Dominican Republic

Via Xinhua :

" Eleven more people died of cholera last week in Dominican Republic, bringing the death toll to 87, the Health Ministry said Friday.

In its weekly update on the cholera situation, the ministry said the number of suspected cholera cases fell to 773 last week from 808 in the previous week, the third week in a row to see a drop since an outbreak last November.

However, the disease continues to rage in the southern part of the country.

The arrival of the rainy season with hot and humid weather has led to a sharp rise in cases since June. The death toll has doubled in the past six weeks. The ministry has tightened measures to prevent the spread of cholera and related diseases.

A total of 13,200 suspected cases have been registered nationwide since November, according to the ministry's report."

Cholera deaths reaches 71 in Dominican Republic since last November

Via Xinhua :

" A total of 71 people had died from cholera-related diseases since last November, including nine deaths last week, the Health Ministry said on Friday.

The number of suspected cholera cases had risen to 10,760 after 1,014 new cases were registered alone in the last week.

With the arrival of the rainy season, the ministry has tightened measures to prevent the spread of Cholera and other diseases.

The first cholera cases in the Dominican Republic was detected in November 2010, one month after an outbreak started in neighboring Haiti."

Dominican Republic : Public Health reports two more deaths from cholera

Article via Dominican Today :

" Santo Domingo : Two people, one a minor, died from cholera this week in the National District and in western Elías Piña, the Public Health Ministry announced Thursday.

It also revealed 132 confirmed cases of the disease, 83 of those in greater Santo Domingo, San Cristóbal (south) and San Pedro (east) provinces. There were 143 confirmed cases were from different parts of the country last week.

Among the deaths was that of a one year old girl in the San Lorenzo hospital, a resident of the sector Los Mina, and a woman, 52, in Elías Piña, Public Health said, adding that the girl arrived at the hospital in a state of chock.

The fatalities bring the number of confirmed deaths to 36 since November, when the first case of cholera was reported in Dominican territory."

Cholera death toll reaches 30 in Dominican Republic

Article from Dominican Today :

" Santo Domingo. : Nearly 30 people have died of cholera in the Dominican Republic and at least another 5,000 have been infected following last year's massive outbreak in Haiti, said Senen Caba, the head of the Dominican Medical College.

However, the health ministry said in its latest toll that the number of deaths is 23 while only 1,288 have been infected.

Health Minister Bautista Rojas told the press he expects a rise in cases in the coming three to four weeks. He also confirmed that two new laboratories have been installed for detecting the disease."

Cholera toll in Dominican Republic climbs to 23

Article from Business Live :

" At least 23 people have died of cholera in the Dominican Republic and another 1,288 have been infected following a massive outbreak in neighboring Haiti last year, officials said.

The health ministry released the new toll on Thursday, saying that in the last three weeks alone the number of dead has nearly doubled from 13 and the number of infections has risen by more than 400.

The government said it had installed two new laboratories for detecting the disease, but Health Minister Bautista Rojas said he expects a rise in cases in the coming three to four weeks.

The head of the Dominican Medical College, Senen Caba, has meanwhile disputed the toll, saying the epidemic has killed 30 and infected 5,000."

Cholera in Dominican Republic Has Killed 14, Spreads to Most of Country

Via Fox News :

" The cholera epidemic is making a big comeback in the Dominican Republic – with hundreds of new cases of the disease, which has now spread to most of the country.

Deputy Health Minister Jose Rodriguez says there have been 1,143 cases of cholera and 14 deaths since the outbreak began in November. The number of new cases reported Monday is up about 50 percent since the middle of May.

The Dominican physicians' union says cases have been confirmed in 28 of the country's 32 provinces. The situation may worsen with the onset of the hurricane season in June.

Cholera was detected in the Dominican Republic after an outbreak in neighboring Haiti, which shares the island of Hispaniola with the DR, in October. There have been 266,000 cases and nearly 5,000 deaths in Haiti."

Dominican Republic declares cholera alert as cases mount

Article from The Star :

" A wave of new cholera cases has prompted the Dominican Republic’s Health Ministry to declare a state of alert in 17 neighbourhoods in the capital.

Doctors are out in force looking for people with symptoms of the waterborne disease. Vice Minister of Health Jose Rodriguez said Monday that 16 people are hospitalized with suspected cholera. He says all are in stable condition but there have been two deaths in recent days.

Cholera had not been detected in the Dominican Republic until after the outbreak in neighbouring Haiti in October.

Fourteen people have died from the outbreak, and 750 cases have been detected in the Dominican Republic. Cholera has killed nearly 5,000 in Haiti."

Dominican Republic reports first cholera death

An AFP report hosted by Google News :

" SANTO DOMINGO : Officials in the Dominican Republic on Sunday reported the first death from a cholera outbreak that had spread from neighboring Haiti, local media said.

Health officials were quoted as saying the victim had been in Haiti and lived in the Dominican city of Higuey.

A health ministry statement said Renauld Francois, 53, died Thursday, and that an autopsy would be performed to learn the exact cause of death but that his symptoms were "consistent with the disease."

The Dominican Republic has reported 152 cases of cholera since the outbreak in Haiti last year."

70 Cholera Cases in Dominican Republic

Via Cuba Headlines :

" The number of Dominicans infected by cholera increased to 70, according to Minister of Public Health Bautista Rojas.

Only three of the infected people were still hospitalized, while the rest went back to work, the minister stated.

Rojas headed the second day of the activities of prevention against infectious diseases, with the participatino of 150,000 volunteers from across the country."

Dominican Rep. reports new cholera case

An article from Xinhua :

" SANTO DOMINGO, Dec. 4 : The Dominican Republic reported a new cholera case on Saturday, raising the number of the country's cases to 16.

The new patient, a 39-year-old man from south of the country, has been hospitalized and is in good conditions, Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas told reporters.

"This patient is being monitored by the Public Health Ministry. We have a monitoring system at national level and everything goes fine," he said.

The epidemic is under strict control of authorities, which have carried out preventive measure nationwide, he added."

Dominican Republic reports seventh cholera case

Via Xinhua :

" SANTO DOMINGO, Nov. 28 : The health minister of the Dominican Republic announced the country's seventh case of cholera here on Sunday.

Bautista Rojas Gomez, who was once a doctor, said that a five-year-old girl caught the disease in Santo Domingo province and that she was the cousin of the sixth case, whose infection was announced on Saturday.

The minister said that Dominican doctors would stage a second intervention in "Little Haiti," a Santo Domingo slum that hosts thousands of Haitians.

"We issued them a warning to raise hygiene standards when preparing food and it was ignored," Rojas said.

So far, all the cases reported were of people living in Rio Ozama, where people are living in extreme poverty and without appropriate sanitation.

Rojas Tuesday said that the Republic will distribute 5 million flyers, posters and support materials in order to prevent the spread of cholera."

Haiti cholera reaches Dominican Republic

An article from BBC News, excerpt :

" The Dominican Republic has detected its first case of cholera, following the outbreak of the disease in neighbouring Haiti last month.

The patient is a Haitian migrant who had recently returned from his homeland, the health minister said.

The Dominican authorities had stepped up border controls and health checks to try to stop cholera from spreading from Haiti.

More than 1,000 Haitians have died of the disease.

Dominican health minister Bautista Rojas said the patient, a 32-year-old Haitian construction worker, was being treated in isolation in the eastern town of Higuey.

Like Haiti, the Dominican Republic had not had a confirmed case of cholera in more than a century until this year."

Malaria rises again in Dominican Republic

An article from Taiwan News :

" Health authorities in the Dominican Republic say an increase in malaria cases could be linked to the Jan. 12 earthquake in neighboring Haiti. Deputy Health Minister Jose Rodriguez Aybar said Friday there have been 1,644 cases so far this year. That's about 200 more than the average for an entire year.

Malaria is caused by a parasite transmitted by mosquitoes. There's no vaccine, but it can be treated. Dominican Medical Council epidemiologist Clemente Terrero said heavy rains could be a factor. But he also cited an influx of migrants from Haiti, where malaria is more prevalent.

Thousands of Haitians crossed the border after the quake seeking work and shelter, and the incidence is highest near the border."

Dominican towns fight disease outbreaks

Via Wood TV :

" SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic : Officials in the Dominican Republic are warning people living near low-lying areas flooded by recent rainstorms to be on alert for two diseases that have already killed 53 people and sickened thousands.

Health Minister Bautista Rojas says communities hit hard by the July storms have seen an outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever as well as leptospirosis. It spreads through exposure to water contaminated with urine from infected animals.

Rojas said Tuesday that health workers will go to rural communities in the central Cibao valley. State laboratories have already provided free testing for the diseases near the capital, Santo Domingo.

Rojas says 26 people have died of dengue and 27 of leptospirosis."