Puerto Principe, May 20 (EFE) .- A total of 5234 people have died in Haiti as a result of the cholera epidemic affecting the country since October last year, according the latest figures from the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP). According to the ministry, the epidemic has affected 302,401 people across the country, where the disease was eradicated until his appearance at the beginning of the last quarter of 2010, nine months after the powerful earthquake that devastated part of the impoverished nation in January this year. Total affected, 162,651 have required hospitalization, but only 3169 remain in the health centers, according to the MSPP, which updated the casualty figures to 10 May.
The department most affected by the deadly disease is Artibonite (north), with 1,043 deaths, followed by West, to which the Haitian capital, with 945 dead.
local health authorities, however, include a decrease in the mortality rate of cholera was eradicated on the island of English, shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic until last October.
While Dominican authorities confirmed only 14 deaths from cholera, now face an outbreak in Santo Domingo, along with the adjoining province of Monte Plata (southeast), the alert was declared "top" about the situation.
strain that scientists identified the cholera epidemic that Haiti is suffering similar to that circulated at the same time in parts of Asia, including Nepal, which reinforces the theory that the "blue helmets" that China played an important role in the outbreak, according to a report released recently by the UN.
While recognizing that "the particular country of origin from which you came is debatable," the report concludes that "the strain isolated during the cholera outbreak in Haiti and circulating in South Asia, including Nepal, at the same time in 2009 and 2010 are similar. "
"The evidence supports the conclusion that the source of the cholera outbreak in Haiti was the pollution of a tributary of the River Artibonite with a strain rate of South Asia as a result of human activity, "the document highlights the lack of Haitian population immunity to cholera. EFE
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