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Haiti officials defend not focus on cholera outbreak, its origins

Mexico CITY - medical authorities in Haiti defended Tuesday not to concentrate its decision in search of the origins of a cholera-outbreak which killed, more than 1,000 people and stoked violent demonstrations against the United Nations peacekeeping forces, which many people blamed for the introduction of the disease.

Protests, began the Monday and wore their wrath on the peacekeeping forces in Tuesday in some places, two people dead as protesters, a 12,000 strong, multinational force, which in Haiti in 2004 in response to political conflict arrived addressed.

A spokesman for the UN force said the protesters were with the growing cholera epidemic as an excuse to push out troops and the country before the Nov.28 Presidential election to destabilize.

"" These are not real demonstrations", said the spokesman, Vincenzo Pugliese.""Are spoilers to create use paid to chaos."United Nations health workers said the demonstrations were the treatment of victims in Cap Haïtien, hinder, where supplies are running low and the death rate is high.

Some see the peacekeeping forces occupying forces as hardliners, while others you support out of concern that are the national police unable to maintain order.

Tensions over the power have increased after the cholera root as from South Asia identified health officials and found that the bacteria that lives in feces, had contaminated River where Nepalese troops arrived, began in October shortly before the outbreak.

Reporter in Haiti found signs of poor sanitation in the camp, but the UN mission has steadfastly refused, that the troops are to blame, and has said that repeated tests failed cholera, these mesh. South Asia is home to many cholera strains.

Scientists have said that based on initial testing of its genetic traits seems that load the cholera in contaminated food, Haiti were placed water or in an individual.Before this, cholera in Haiti had documented at least in the last century.

And not the disease to the troops who said World Health Organisation (WHO) has joined during the tests, it could not exclude werden.Eine of full investigation's outbreak origin has not been performed.

"We are focused on treatment of people getting a handle on this and rescue of life," said Daniel B. Epstein, a spokesman for the Pan American Health Organization, the branch of the WHO in Haiti active.

Dr. Jordan Tappero, an epidemiologist with the centers for disease control and prevention, leading medical investigator in Haiti, said U.S. phone it would unlikely that scientists pinpoint where the outbreak began and he don't think mounting an all-out effort to find the answer was "Is a good use of resources."

Outside epidemiologists said it was agreed that the treatment of victims was more important to study the bacteria and where it came from understanding how disease travels and mutates to extend but you important, generally about.

Studying the genetics of the root "would give a better idea where it came from", said Dr. David bag, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of public health the cholera outbreak, studied "but I agree, it is more important, disease prevention and control should killing es.Es not be."

The Haitian Government said on Tuesday that the death of toll 1.034 16,799 people for cholera or symptoms of the disease had reached treated.

Health officials in the Dominican Republic Tuesday said that you had found the first confirmed case of cholera in a Haitian citizens who returned recently from his home, the associated press reported.


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Death toll from poliomyelitis outbreak nears 100 Congolese

A boy gets a vaccine in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo. Polio is highly infectious and targets the nervous system.A Boy Gets a vaccine in Loympoympasi, Democratic Republic of Congo. Polio is a highly contagious and is the nervous system; NEW: Health Minister calls the Democratic Republic of Congo polio outbreak "alarming" a massive polio immunization campaign was set up for three West African nationsThe death toll is higher at 97, an unusually high percentage considering the 226 cases, officials sayThe immune booster, starting Friday, followed by similar efforts in recent months

(CNN)--global health organizations plan to launch a massive polio vaccination in three West African Nations, after an outbreak of fast and particularly virulent already killed 97 people.

Since the first confirmation of poliomyelitis 4 November in the Democratic Republic of Congo, at least 226 people have been diagnosed with acute pladaroi paralysis--usually a condition associated with polio--according to the United Nations.

Such 97 had died on Tuesday--"an unusually high mortality rate," said u.n. children's Fund and the World Health Organisation in a joint press release. At least four of the 226 total cases have already confirmed polio, a number that is expected to grow.

In response, the UN said Thursday that a polio immunization campaign targeting 3 million children and adults will begin Friday at point Noire port city and the region Koilou within the Republic of the Congo, 16 districts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and parts of neighbouring Angola.

Most cases so far have involved young adults between the ages of 15 and 29, the United Nations and the World Health Organization.However, the effort will be immune, spherical.

"Every man, woman, every child is immunized regardless of recent immunization status," Dr Luis Sambo, Regional Director for Africa, said in a press release. "In this way we can ensure that everyone is reached, including young adults whose immunity may be low. "

UNICEF said that suspicious cases began to emerge in October, with 73 cases reported in a hospital in Pointe Noire week of October 18 only.

The World Health Organization said Wednesday the death occurred in and around this coastal city. Scientists have linked the resurgence of poliomyelitis in the Democratic Republic of Congo--a cause is not seen by less than 2004, depending on where--virus circulating in nearby Angola.

"Where continued to rise," Sona Bari, a representative of the Agency poliomyelitis eradication unit, said Wednesday.

In a statement released by UNICEF, Minister of health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo said the nation had a good assessment of what is called an "alarming" situation.

"Partners and resources are being mobilized to implement an appropriate response," said Georges Moyen.

Last month, a large-scale immunization drive and synchronized polio began in 15 countries targeted 72 million people--mostly infants and young children--around Africa, said the World Health Organization (who). Some 290,000 are projected to go "door to deliver two oral polio vaccine drops" for all children under 5 in high-risk areas.

Health officials undertook a similar effort in 2009 and this last spring after polio cases were confirmed in 24 African countries. following a sharp drop in Diagnostics, including 98 percent reduction in Nigerian polio cases in 2010 compared to 2009, reported by the World Health Organization.

Polio is a highly contagious disease that aims the nervous system, according to the Centers for disease control and prevention, More of those afflicted. no symptoms and 4 percent to 8 percent of manifest on minor. Generally, polio sufferers hamstrung permanently in less than 1 percent of cases.Abdelaziz Salma CNN contributed to this report.

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