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Title: First cholera case in Florida found in Naples area
Source: sun-sentinel.com
URL Source: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/health/ ... pdate-20101117,0,7409105.story
Published: Nov 17, 2010
Author: By Bob LaMendola, Sun Sentinel
Post Date: 2010-11-17 15:12:18 by WhiteSands
Keywords: cholera, Haiti
Views: 5132
Comments: 5

A Naples-area woman has been confirmed as the first Floridian to contract cholera after visiting Haiti, and other potential cases in other areas also are being tested, state health officials said Wednesday.

But Department of Health doctors said the woman's infection poses virtually no risk to the public in Florida because U.S. sewer and water systems eliminate the bacteria from drinking water, which is primarily how it spreads.

"We don't anticipate we will see any transmission as a result of exposure in Haiti in Florida or anywhere else in the U.S. … because our water and sanitiation system minimizes the risk," said Dr. Thomas Torok, a disease investigator with the health department.

The only real risk to Floridians would occur if they had direct contact with bodily fluids from an infected person, including if the patient worked in a job with public contact, cholera experts said. The woman does not work in such a job.

State health officials declined to say how many other illnesses they are investigating as potential cholera cases, or where those cases have developed. Potential cases in South Florida would not be a surprise, given number of residents here who travel to Haiti.

The infected woman, from Collier County, contracted the disease after a trip to visit relatives in the Artibonite River region of Haiti, where that country's recent outbreak began and has been strongest, Torok said. Haiti's cholera epidemic has killed about 1,100 and hospitalized more than 18,000.

She was hospitalized after returning home and is recovering. "The patient is doing quite well," Torok said.

Cholera can be fatal within hours if not detected and treated early, but most people recover. Symptoms include severe, rapid-onset diarrhea that causes an extreme loss of fluids, potentially leading to shock. Intravenous rehydration with liquids and doses of antibiotics usually defeat the bacteria.

Cholera can develop within a few hours to five days after a person is infected, generally through water and food contaminated with bodily fluids from infected people. It does not spread through the air. Many people have mild or no symptoms.

Since the oubreak began, Florida health officials have been urging doctors, hospitals and testing labs to be on the lookout for signs of cholera, in light of the state's 241,000 Haiti-born residents – 73,000 of whom live in Miami-Dade County and 63,000 in Broward County. Traffic from the state to the island has been heavier than normal since the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.

The woman's case was detected and handled quickly, Torok said.

"The clinicians did exactly what we wanted of them," he said.

Florida has weathered past cholera outbreaks without any local impact, Torok said. An outbreak from 1991 to 1993 in Latin America led to 20 Floridians infected as a result of travel there, but no cases were spread through local infection, he said.

On Tuesday, medical authorities in Haiti defended their decision not to focus on finding the origins of the cholera outbreak, which has stoked violent demonstrations against United Nations peacekeepers, whom many people blame for introducing the disease, the New York Times reported today.

Protests that began Monday and carried into Tuesday in some places left two people dead as demonstrators directed their ire at the peacekeepers, a 12,000-strong, multinational force that arrived in Haiti in 2004 in response to political conflict.

Health News Florida, a nonprofit news organization, contributed to this report.

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#1. To: WhiteSands (#0)

Lay down with Haitian's, wake up with cholera...

Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.

Badeye  posted on  2010-11-17   15:13:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: WhiteSands (#0)

This is being HUGELY downplayed.

On November 14, Operational Biosurveillance said it confirmed statistics of up to 400% undercounting.

"There is no question of under-reporting." At one-fourth the true crisis, "we now have nearly 60k cases shedding pathogen into the environment. We believe the true statistic to be closer to more than 100k based on the degree of under-reporting. It is extremely difficult to estimate the true scale of this epidemic now. (It’s) grossly uncontrolled, uncontained, (and) has exceeded public health capacity to investigate and assess every site reported and every sample received."

Disturbingly, the entire country is affected, including the densely crowded capital, Port-au-Prince, with up to 1.5 million in makeshift accommodations on city streets and wherever they found space, living in the open under dismal sanitation conditions.

Cuba would be looking EXACTLY like this but for Fidel. As there are now more Cuban Doctors than US in Haiti.

A policy that says "don’t look back" means the triumph of torture: while we may not be captives of our past, we are the captives of our perception of the past. When one side offers an airbrushed version of the past and the other is silent, then, in the binary world of Washington, victory goes to the falsifiers.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-11-18   9:42:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: All (#2)

Anyone hear this anywhere? LP mimics Fox? 8D

However, little Western aid was provided, virtually nothing from Washington despite over $1.1 billion pledged. Also, Haiti’s medical infrastructure is woefully inadequate, besides poor sanitation and most Haitians having no access to clean drinking water.

Overall since the January earthquake, Washington obstructed what little aid arrived. Then cholera and Hurricane Tomas flooding, making conditions on the ground worse than ever, indifferent rich nations doing little to help.

Haitians finally reacted, riots erupting in Cap-Haitien on Haiti’s north coast. On November 16, Al Jazeera headlined, "Haiti cholera protests turns violent," saying:

Clashes with MINUSTAH forces killed at least two Haitians. "Protesters, who hold Nepalese UN peacekeepers responsible for the cholera outbreak (from an identified Asian strain foreign to Haiti), threw stones and threatened to set fire to a (Cap Haitien) base," according to Haitian radio and eyewitness reports.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-11-18   9:43:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: All (#3)

MINUSTAH forces

Like Nixon's CREEP, you gotta love that name for exactly who these thugs are. 8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-11-18   9:46:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: All (#4)

Note not a word of anything outside of Port au Prince:

On November 15, Haitian Truth.org reported that:

Cap Haitian is closed. Schools closed. People (are) on streets throwing rocks. MINUSTAH troops (were) disarmed by Haitians. (The) airport (was) under attack. Preval is finished…. Business is closed. The city is shut down. (At the airport), attempt(s were made) to burn (a) terminal underway…. Much gunfire (was reported).

Incoming aircraft were diverted. UN vehicles were being burned. Haitians demanded removal of UN troops. They fired tear gas at demonstrators. MINUSTAH’s airport headquarters was burned. People say stop the election. Help children.

On November 16, Reuters also reported clashes in Cap Haitien, a local businessman saying: "The whole city is blocked, businesses and schools have closed, cars have been burned. It’s chaos here." Demonstrators set fire to the Pont Neuf police station.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-11-18   11:05:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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