The Ministry of Health reported that after the Friday, 917 had it dead and more than 14.600 were hospitalized with cholera-like symptoms in the hospital. That is until from 724 11,125 hospitalizations and deaths reported a few days ago.
The disease was in 6 of Haiti's 10 provinces, known as departments, found and where it arose Artibonite, which accounts for almost two-thirds of the deaths.
Several epidemiologists have said the disease has passed its peak and will likely worsen and break health officials out in other regions of the country, with un, the estimate approximately 270,000 ill may be made in the coming years.Several new cholera treatment centres are springing up in the capital and other areas.
"The trend is rising and it's material from Department to Department," ROC Magloire, Ministry of Health's said epidemiologist in a telephone interview on the Sonntag.Er referred questions the Ministry Director General, Gabriel Timothée, who could not be reached.
Hospitals in Port-au-Prince, where more than one million earthquakes refugees in congested, squalid tent camps live are overflowing with patients, the cholera symptoms and the death of toll has reached 27.The disease was first reported in the capital on November 8.
President René Préval, at a conference about the disease on Sunday in Port-au-Prince, urged people to wash your hands frequently and drink only water, the associated press reported.But even before the earthquake, the majority of the population lack access to clean water and sanitation.
Cholera, a bacterium that lives in feces contaminated water, causes severe diarrhea and vomiting, dehydration, and his victims in hours without killing format.the treatment rate of serious cases, 30 to 40 percent, is that cholera there for 40 years in Haiti as the 25 percent during a typical outbreak due to extreme poverty, unsanitary conditions and the fact far higher.
"If we around and give advice on food hygiene, tell me," Let me have SOAP, I can't afford it,' "Leonard Doyle, a spokesman for the International Organization for migration, said is an agency, the distribution of Wasserreinigungs tablets and cleaning supplies."
On Friday, $ 164 million of humanitarian organisations called the United Nations and a strategy to support the Government on the disease geschaffen.Das respond donors biggest piece of the plan is $ 89 million for clean water, sanitation and hygiene.
Officials in the neighbouring country, the Dominican Republic, say are markets bordering limit and cholera reached the other steps the country where thousands of people live and work.
One suspected case turned out to be cholera, the country's Health Minister listin Diario which said that the Dominican Republic said Sunday, after a Dominican newspaper, 7,500 to 10,000 treat cholera patients.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
FIX: November 16, 2010
An article on Monday about the rising death toll of the cholera epidemic spreading in Haiti wrong is the name of the chief epidemiologist in the Gesundheitsministerium.Er ROC Magloire, not Magliore.
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