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05-23-2011, 02:00 PM
Public Health Minister is warning the public to exercise extra precaution when it comes of hygiene in order to prevent the spread of cholera in Dominican Republic.
The recent heavy rainfall is thought to have caused the outbreaks that have been reported in several slum areas with sanitation problems in Santo Domingo. La Cienaga and La Puya have been the worst affected neighborhoods. At the Luis Eduardo Aybar and Francisco Moscoso Puello Hospitals where patients suffering from diarrhea are being taken, some four dozen suspected cholera cases were reported over the weekend. There have been 14 deaths in the DR out of about 1,000 cases reported to date. Outbreaks have also been reported in the Santo Domingo slum neighborhoods of Los Alcarrizos and Canta la Rana, as well as in San Pedro de Macoris and San Juan de la Maguana.
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The recent heavy rainfall is thought to have caused the outbreaks that have been reported in several slum areas with sanitation problems in Santo Domingo. La Cienaga and La Puya have been the worst affected neighborhoods. At the Luis Eduardo Aybar and Francisco Moscoso Puello Hospitals where patients suffering from diarrhea are being taken, some four dozen suspected cholera cases were reported over the weekend. There have been 14 deaths in the DR out of about 1,000 cases reported to date. Outbreaks have also been reported in the Santo Domingo slum neighborhoods of Los Alcarrizos and Canta la Rana, as well as in San Pedro de Macoris and San Juan de la Maguana.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)