11-17-2010, 04:34 PM
now a woman has brought it to Miami.
Cap Haitien, Haiti (CNN) -- The cholera outbreak in Haiti has spread across the border to the Dominican Republic and that nation has issued a maximum health alert, its health ministry said.
The first confirmed case is a 32-year-old Haitian construction worker who returned to the Dominican Republic last Friday with symptoms of the intestinal illness, the health ministry said Tuesday night.
Wilmo Louwes went back to Haiti October 31 to take money home, according to the El Nacional newspaper.
Louwes came back Friday with symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea and was hospitalized in Higuey, near the eastern resort town of Punta Cana. He was in stable condition and will probably be released from the hospital Wednesday, the newspaper quoted Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez as saying.
Also in the U.S., a woman who recently returned to Florida from Haiti has been diagnosed with cholera, the Florida Department of Health said Wednesday.
The cholera outbreak confirmed last month in northwest Haiti has killed 1,110 people, and 18,383 people have been hospitalized with the disease, according to Haiti's health ministry.
As cases of cholera spread throughout Haiti, violent clashes erupted in the northern part of the country as angry demonstrators accused United Nations peacekeepers of starting the outbreak.
Cholera can be deadly within hours
Burning tires and cars sent thick black smoke across Cap Haitien, where the government appeared to have lost control.
Protesters set a police station ablaze and commercial flights were suspended to Haiti's second-largest city. At least one protester was killed by a peacekeeper acting in self-defense, the United Nations said.
Aid agencies appealed for calm and said the protests were hampering efforts to reach the sickened.
Aid workers have suspended clean water projects to slum areas, and canceled flights to deliver soap and other supplies to affected areas, a statement from aid agencies said.
Supplies in Cap Haitien are running out and the medical staff is overwhelmed as cholera mortality numbers climb, said Nigel Fisher, coordinator for humanitarian action for the U.N.
Cap Haitien, Haiti (CNN) -- The cholera outbreak in Haiti has spread across the border to the Dominican Republic and that nation has issued a maximum health alert, its health ministry said.
The first confirmed case is a 32-year-old Haitian construction worker who returned to the Dominican Republic last Friday with symptoms of the intestinal illness, the health ministry said Tuesday night.
Wilmo Louwes went back to Haiti October 31 to take money home, according to the El Nacional newspaper.
Louwes came back Friday with symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea and was hospitalized in Higuey, near the eastern resort town of Punta Cana. He was in stable condition and will probably be released from the hospital Wednesday, the newspaper quoted Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez as saying.
Also in the U.S., a woman who recently returned to Florida from Haiti has been diagnosed with cholera, the Florida Department of Health said Wednesday.
The cholera outbreak confirmed last month in northwest Haiti has killed 1,110 people, and 18,383 people have been hospitalized with the disease, according to Haiti's health ministry.
As cases of cholera spread throughout Haiti, violent clashes erupted in the northern part of the country as angry demonstrators accused United Nations peacekeepers of starting the outbreak.
Cholera can be deadly within hours
Burning tires and cars sent thick black smoke across Cap Haitien, where the government appeared to have lost control.
Protesters set a police station ablaze and commercial flights were suspended to Haiti's second-largest city. At least one protester was killed by a peacekeeper acting in self-defense, the United Nations said.
Aid agencies appealed for calm and said the protests were hampering efforts to reach the sickened.
Aid workers have suspended clean water projects to slum areas, and canceled flights to deliver soap and other supplies to affected areas, a statement from aid agencies said.
Supplies in Cap Haitien are running out and the medical staff is overwhelmed as cholera mortality numbers climb, said Nigel Fisher, coordinator for humanitarian action for the U.N.