NewsWhore
11-18-2010, 02:40 PM
After the DR's first cholera case was confirmed this week, the authorities have stepped up their preventive measures and now are asking people crossing the border to sanitize their feet and car tires when entering the DR from Haiti.
The Ministry of Education is distributing cholera prevention booklets to three million students in public schools stressing the importance of washing hands with soap and water, cooking foods well and drinking boiled or purified water and ice.
The border market in Dajabon has been moved to a lot that is equipped with latrines, sinks and soap. It is also reported that health experts are boarding Dominican-bound buses and asking if anyone is sick.
Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez is optimistic that the disease can be constrained in the DR. "Several weeks into this, we have just one imported case", he told the Miami Herald. "If we stay vigilant, we should be able to have just isolated cases."
Gomez said that Haitian construction worker Wilmo Louwe, the first person confirmed to have cholera in the DR, has made an almost complete recovery. He was rehydrated and treated with doxycycline. He contracted the disease while visiting with family in Haiti and brought it into the DR when he returned on 12 November.
President Leonel Fernandez met with his cabinet yesterday to discuss the issue.
The main symptoms to watch out for are severe diarrhea, dehydration and fever.
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The Ministry of Education is distributing cholera prevention booklets to three million students in public schools stressing the importance of washing hands with soap and water, cooking foods well and drinking boiled or purified water and ice.
The border market in Dajabon has been moved to a lot that is equipped with latrines, sinks and soap. It is also reported that health experts are boarding Dominican-bound buses and asking if anyone is sick.
Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez is optimistic that the disease can be constrained in the DR. "Several weeks into this, we have just one imported case", he told the Miami Herald. "If we stay vigilant, we should be able to have just isolated cases."
Gomez said that Haitian construction worker Wilmo Louwe, the first person confirmed to have cholera in the DR, has made an almost complete recovery. He was rehydrated and treated with doxycycline. He contracted the disease while visiting with family in Haiti and brought it into the DR when he returned on 12 November.
President Leonel Fernandez met with his cabinet yesterday to discuss the issue.
The main symptoms to watch out for are severe diarrhea, dehydration and fever.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#3)