Published Date: 2006-05-05 00:00:00
Subject: PRO/EDR> Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update 2006 (19)
Archive Number: 20060505.1298
CHOLERA, DIARRHEA & DYSENTERY UPDATE 2006 (19)
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In this update:
Africa
[1] Cholera - Angola
[2] Cholera - Angola (Bie)
[3] Cholera - Angola (Luanda)
[4] Cholera - Angola (Kwanza Sul)
[5] Cholera - Ethiopia (Gambella)
[6] Cholera - Tanzania (Zanzibar)
Asia
[7] Cholera - India (Delhi)
[8] Cholera, diarrhea - Indonesia (West Java)
[9] Cholera - Worldwide - WHO WER Notifications
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[1] Cholera - Angola
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006
From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
Source: Irish Examiner [edited]
<http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=77713358&p=777y366x&n=77713738>
The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Angola has hit 1109 and the
disease has spread to another province, officials said today, 5 May
2006. Almost 100 delegates attended a meeting of national health
authorities in the capital Luanda to consider the latest report on
the outbreak, which said that more than 27 700 people have been
sickened by the disease in 11 of the country's 18 provinces.
The fatality rate of about 4 percent is far above the 1 percent which
the WHO considers an average for cholera. Deputy Health Minister
Jose Van Dunem said the government's emergency plans estimate up to
250 000 people will fall ill before the disease is brought under
control, due to squalid living conditions and cultural attitudes
towards cleanliness.
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[In ProMED postings, only 8 provinces are named as having cases of
cholera: Luanda, Benguela, Kwanza Norte, Kwanza Sul, Bengo, Malanje,
Bie, and possibily Uije. Specific information on other provinces
would be appreciated. - Mod.LL]
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[2] Cholera - Angola (Bie)
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006
From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
Source: Angola Press [edited]
<http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=437322>
A teenager died of cholera on Mon, 1 May 2006, at Bie Central
Hospital out of 2 cases registered as reported in Kuito on 2 May 2006
by the Head of Department of Public Health and Control of Endemic
Diseases, Jose Augusto Goncalves.
Another 4 suspected cases of cholera have been recorded in Kuito municipality.
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[The province of Bie is now the 8th to report cases of cholera. Its
location in Angola can be found at:
<http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/angola.pdf>. - Mod.LL]
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[3] Cholera - Angola (Luanda)
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006
From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
Source: Angola Press [edited]
<http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=437882>
13 people died of cholera from 3 to 4 May 2006 in the Angolan
capital, Luanda, raising the number of deaths to 197 since the start
of the epidemic disease on 13 Feb 2006.
According to the provincial health director, Vita Vemba, the
districts of Cacuaco, with 106 cases, and of Samba, with 43,
registered 4 deaths each, whilst Kilamba Kiaxi, with 25 cholera cases
claimed 2 lives. Cazenga, with 64 cases, Viana with 41, and Maianga
with 44 cases, registered 1 death each. 112 cases were detected in
Sambizanga, 29 in Ingombota, 3 in Rangel, without deaths.
Since the outbreak, 13 379 people were infected by cholera, with a
mortality rate of 1 percent.
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[A map of the city of Luanda can be found at:
<http://www.luandamap.com/map/luanda/c3.jpg> - Mod.LL]
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[4] Cholera - Angola (Kwanza Sul)
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006
From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
Source: Angola Press [edited]
<http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=437580>
3 people died of cholera over the last 24 hours, out of 25 cases
recorded in Sumbe and Amboim districts, central Kwanza-Sul province,
a health source announced.
According to the head of the Department of Public Health and Diseases
Control, Henriques Silvestre, 21 cases (with 1 death) were notified
in Sumbe and other 4 cases (2 deaths) in Amboim.
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A map of Angola can be found at:
<http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/angola.pdf>. Kwanza
Sul (or Cuanza Sul) is surrounded by provinces already reporting
cholera cases. - Mod.LL]
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[5] Cholera - Ethiopia (Gambella)
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006
From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
Source: TurkishPress.com [edited]
<http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=121576>
At least 10 people have died in the past 2 weeks in western Ethiopia
following a diarrhea outbreak suspected to be due to cholera, health
officials said Mon, 1 May 2006. Turuwork Tafesse, director of
disease surveillance, said the 10 died in the western Gambella
region, where the French charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said
286 people have been admitted in the last week alone. "We suspect
cholera, but we haven't confirmed it yet," Turuwork told AFP, adding
that samples had been taken for analysis.
"It is a concern for us," said William Robertson, MSF's
representative in Ethiopia. "We are at the very early stage of an
intervention that could last 3 or 4 months."
In 2002, when the diarrhea epidemic last erupted, the health ministry
did not confirm whether it was cholera.
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[A district map of Gambella with a country map:
<http://www.reliefweb.int/mapc/afr_ne/cnt/eth/ethgamb.html> - Mod.LL]
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[6] Cholera - Tanzania (Zanzibar)
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006
From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
Source: XinHuaNet [edited]
<http://english.people.com.cn/200605/05/eng20060505_263245.html>
The ongoing outbreak of cholera in Zanzibar has so far claimed the
lives of 17 people and hospitalized 68 others since the epidemic
re-surfaced early in Apr 2006, according to reports reaching here on
Fri, 4 May 2006. Another 301 people are suffering from vomiting and
diarrhea, the major symptoms of cholera.
Zanzibar experienced 2 severe outbreaks of cholera back in 1978 and
1997. More than 150 people died of the disease in 1997 alone.
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[A map of Tanzania showing the islands of Zanzibar off the
northeastern coast can be found at
<http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/tanzania.pdf> - Mod.LL]
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[7] Cholera - India (Delhi)
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006
From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
Source: ZeeNews.com [edited]
<http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=292372&sid=REG>
As many as 35 cases of cholera were reported in the national capital
in the week ending 28 Apr 2006.
The statistics were provided in a meeting chaired by Delhi Health
Minister Yoganand Shastri to review the situation as regards water
and vector-borne diseases. Out of the 35 cases reported, 30 were from
MCD areas, 2 were from neighboring Uttar Pradesh, 2 from other states
and one was untraceable, the minister said.
Shastri said in 2006 a total of 172 cases of cholera were reported in
Delhi out of which 49 were reported from unauthorized colonies, 33
from regularized colonies, 34 from urbanized villages, 34 from JJ
clusters and slums, 3 cases each from NDMC and railways, 12 from
other states while 3 other cases could not be traced.
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[Unauthorized colonies exist in and around Delhi and other large
cities, practically taking up all open and vacant land everywhere.
These have been developed totally without any regulation either of
layout or of building construction.
Regularized (or unauthorized, regularized) colonies are those which
seem have a increasing legal status while urbanized villages are
those rural villages that have been upgraded in sophistication.
A JJ (Jhugi Jhopdi) cluster is a slum of group of small roughly built
houses or shelters usually made of mud, wood, or metal having a
thatch or tin roof. - Mod.LL]
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[A map of the city of Delhi can be found at:
<http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapshells/indian_subcontinent/delhi/delhi.htm>.
Its location in the country is shown at:
<http://www.gate1travel.com/india-travel/maps/MapIndia.gif> - Mod.LL]
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[8] Cholera, diarrhea - Indonesia (West Java)
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006
From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
Source: Antara News [edited]
<http://www.antara.co.id/en/seenws/?id=12035>
Diarrhea has killed 3 villagers and 385 others are hospitalized in 3
villages in Ciomas subdistrict, Bogor, West Java province. The
disease was detected in the villages some 75 km from Jakarta last
week and since then the number of infected people has increased. An
official of the Bogor Health Office, Dr. Eulis Wulantari, said here
on Tue, 2 May 2006, that the result of laboratory tests show that the
diarrhea was caused by cholera and _E. coli_ bacteria.
The Bogor Health Office has declared diarrhea outbreaks in the 3
villages, namely Mekarjaya, Parakan and Kota Batu.
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[A map showing West Java (Jawa Barat),a province of Indonesia,
located on the island of Java, can be found at:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Java> - Mod.LL]
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[9] Cholera - Worldwide - WHO WER Notifications
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006
From: Marianne Hopp <mjhopp12@yahoo.com>
Source: WHO Epidemiological Record [edited]
<http://www.who.int/wer/2006/wer8118/en/index.html>
Notifications of cholera received from 28 Apr to 4 May 2006
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Country/Dates/Cases/Deaths
Africa
Angola 19-28 Apr 2006/ 8 777/ 357
Zimbabwe 13 Mar-16 Apr 2006/ 124/ 5
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