Haitian president confirms that already 138 people have died of cholera

Haitian president confirms that already 138 people have died of cholera
Haitian president confirms that already 138 people have died of cholera
Santo Domingo, October 24 (Xinhuanet) ' Reporter Liu GuoQiang) The news of Port-au-Prince: The general thunder Val confirms on the 22nd in the Haitian president ties tight, the cholera epidemic situation of breaking out in this country recently is spreading rapidly, has already caused 138 deaths at least at present, 1526 people catch an illness. The general thunder Val says to the local media: "I can confirm, this is cholera. The greatest health crisis that we face of the heavy earthquake takes place in January of this year in this. " He says, the government has already taken the precautionary measures, has prevented cholera from spreading in larger range. Haiti public the intersection of Ministry of Public Health and officer say laboratory analysis results indicate, the epidemic situation of breaking out recently is a group of light Sichuan type cholera of O. The local media reports, the number of people dying of cholera at present has already been up to 200, more than 2300 people catch an illness. The intersection of cholera and epidemic situation this take place in the intersection of Haiti and northern rich area along the special Nicaragua, base of a fruit of A, mainly. According to the analysis, the epidemic situation may have something to do with food and water that the locality is polluted. At present, the epidemic situation has not involved the capital Port-au-Prince yet, but some hospitals have been already overstaffed.


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