May 20 2011
Health authorities have raised alerts in 17 "mainly poor" neighborhoods in the Dominican Republic capital of Santo Domingo after 16 people were hospitalized with suspected cholera,
BBC News reports (5/17). Fourteen people have died of the disease and 750 cases have been recorded in recent months, according to the
Associated Press/Fox News Latino, which also reports on some of the prevention efforts. "Health workers and epidemiologists were dispatched to the affected neighborhoods to search for people with symptoms of the waterborne disease and distribute disinfecting supplies" (5/17).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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