Dominica Year 149 People Died Of Cholera

Dominican Republic Ministry of Public Health, 15, announced that in November last year the country's first case of cholera cases since, there were 149 people died of cholera have been diagnosed, about 8100 people infected.

Notice that the past year, the Dominica government has adopted control measures, the current outbreak has been basically brought under control, new cholera cases and deaths dropped significantly.

However, the outbreak of cholera in neighboring Haiti, Dominica has not yet been effectively controlled. World Health Organization said that Haiti cholera epidemic has killed about 6600 people so far killed 47 million people infected.

Dominica and Haiti, with the northern Caribbean at the island of Hispaniola. In mid-October last year, Haiti cholera outbreak in northern coastal areas of the Artibonite province, then to the epidemic quickly spread around the province and neighboring Dominica.