Cholera Prompts Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic says any fresh meat and seafood from Haiti not stamped with a certificate claiming it’s free of cholera will be burned.
Health Minister Bautista Rojas says the measure is intended to prevent cholera from spreading through the informal trading network between the two neighboring countries.
Rojas said Monday the military has been authorized to seize and destroy uncertified raw animal products.
Dominican authorities blame lobster from Haiti for sickening dozens of people at a lavish Casa de Campo wedding last month. Guests had flown in from Venezuela, Boston, New York and Madrid for the wedding, attended by about 500 people.
The Dominican Republic says three people have died and 400 sickened from cholera, a water-borne disease, since October. In Haiti, cholera has killed more than 4,500 people and sickened 234,000.
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Man succumbs to H1N1 virus
Bacil Vanjare, 40, of Pimple Gurav, died of H1N1 virus (swine flu) at Sahyadri Munot Hospital on Monday. Doctors at the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) said a few random cases were likely to occur as this was the post-endemic phase.
While the throat swab sample was not sent to National Institute of Virology (NIV) for testing, a private laboratory, Religare, confirmed that it had tested positive for the H1N1 virus, said Dr Anil Roy, medical officer, PCMC.
Health authorities said Vanjare was suffering from fever and had experienced breathing trouble on February 16. He was admitted to More Hospital and was shifted to Sahyadri Munot Hospital on February 17. His throat swab was sent for tests and the sample tested positive for H1N1 virus on February 18.
This is the first reported swine flu death this year and according to experts at National Institute of Virology, sporadic cases are likely to occur. NIV deputy director Dr MS Chadda said they receive random samples from Pune and other places for examination of the H1N1 virus.
