A prize for the Ministry of health worker hands you a brochure about cholera in Port-au-Prince.NEW: Florida authorities say it is the same type of cholera spreading in Haiti NEW: woman has released from a local hospital and wellA CDC spokesman says the case "unexpected" The woman who recently traveled to Haiti(CNN)--a woman who recently returned to Florida from Haiti has been diagnosed with cholera, MOH Florida announced Wednesday.
Outbreak in Haiti has killed more than 1,100 people, health officials said.
"We have a laboratory confirmation that is of type of cholera spreading in Haiti," said Florida health spokesman Rob Hayes. " This is a major public health concern, but we are at the top, "he added.
The woman, whose name is being withheld for privacy reasons, is released from the Hospital where she was treated and make merry, Hayes said.
"We work with our partners to provide adequate health care caring person and prevent the spread of this disease within the community," general surgeon Florida . Ana MViamonte Ros said in a written statement.
Florida authorities will continue to monitor the situation for any future cases, "she added.
Haiti cholera has now spread along the border with the Dominican Republic, where health officials issued an alert for maximum health.
The number of U.S. travelers heading to and from Haiti has increased since an earthquake destroyed the impoverished nation in January, according to the Declaration of Florida health.
"This case is not unexpected and we may see more imported cases of cholera in people who travel to the United States, behind Haiti," said Tom Skinner, spokesman for the Centers for disease prevention in Atlanta, Georgia and disease control. "Our medical system and programs our water and sanitation, is such that I am not going to see cholera spread in the United States how is in Haiti ".
Florida Health also noted that the superior infrastructure USA minimizes the risk for fecal contamination of food and water, limiting the possible spread of the disease.
Person-to-person transmission is rare, it added.
Over the past five years, 44 cases of cholera have been reported in the United States, according to statistics from the Centers for disease control and prevention; this percentage does not include the last event in Florida; many of these cases were labeled imported, "which means that the victim suffering from the illness outside the country and started already ill USA.
Other victims had a history of traveling to or eating contaminated seafood from the Gulf Coast region, where brackish water, and estuaries are common reservoirs for algae blooms can produce the disease, according to the World Health Organization.
Symptoms of cholera, an acute bacterial disease, caused by drinking water or eating contaminated food trail, can be mild or even nonexistent. but sometimes can be serious: leg cramps, profuse watery diarrhea and vomiting, which can cause rapid loss of Body fluids and can lead to dehydration, shock and death.Miriam Also and David Ariosto's CNN contributed to this report
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