Cholera Kills 1, Sickens 9 in Mexico

Elementary School. Photo by the author.

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miscelaneasdecuba.net - by Mario Hechavarría Driggs - September 28, 2013

( www.miscelaneasdecuba.net .) - Schools Havana municipality of Old Havana, were closed Wednesday morning students detected in cases of Vibrio cholerae ( Cholera ) . Specialists from the Ministry of Public Health are inspecting tanks of schools .

Three children and a teacher of the Concepción Arenal in the Prado Street # 302, five school children Oscar Lucero , Egido # 64, were admitted to the Pediatric Central Havana by vomiting and diarrhea . The teacher was taken urgently to General Calixto Garcia Hospital with symptoms of dehydration.

The Calixto , located in the Plaza de la Revolution , has three rooms equipped to serve persons with suspected cholera . Nurses ensure that revenues exceed thirty beds . The government is silent on the evolution of the disease.

Personal physician performs a screening for all municipalities to detect possible cases . It is feared that a massive outbreak occurs , by the growing number of people who report .

The two municipalities with more cases : Old Havana and Centro Habana . The breaks in the conductive water and seepage of sewage in those municipalities , put at grave risk the population . It requires good handwashing and food consumption not on the street.

Combined In prison there are cases of cholera this among prisoners , families of prisoners reported . The prison remains in quarantine , they are not allowing visitors.

Cholera is claimed that Cuba reached through farming to fulfill missions in the Republic of Haiti. The country suffered a devastating earthquake in 2010 . Then he had an outbreak of cholera that killed hundreds of people in the Caribbean country .

Cholera is a diarrheal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae , which manifests as an intestinal infection. A person can get the disease by drinking fluids or eating food contaminated with the cholera bacterium . During an epidemic , the source of contamination is usually the feces of an infected person. The disease can spread rapidly in wastewater and drinking water with inadequate treatment. Cholera bacteria can live in rivers and coastal areas.

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The Federal Ministry of Health supports the risk that the situation can be extended to the rest of the country, however, rule out epidemic

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excelsior.com.mx - by Laura Toribio - September 30, 2013

MEXICO CITY, September 30. - The Federal Ministry of Health confirmed 44 cases of cholera in the state of Hidalgo. According to the agency, in the state's 33 cases studied, 10 persons of them are actually hospitalized.

At a press conference, Secretary of Health, Mercedes Juan Lopez, warned of the risk that this situation can be extended to the rest of the country, "could come to pass, but all it is doing what we think is not going to move to other states, then, until now, only in the state of Hidalgo on Vibrio cholerae, which is what is also in other countries like Haiti, Dominican Republic and Cuba. "

So far, however, the federal official denied that there outbreak or epidemic cholera in the country.

Remember that this disease caused the first death in more than a decade of not register. The victim was a 61 year old woman who suffered from chronic renal failure, diabetes and obesity.

"There is an epidemic far and what they want is not there," he explained.

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