By admin at 23 October, 2010, 1:45 am
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warned Friday that the wave of cholera affecting Haiti could also reach the neighboring Dominican Republic has asked to apply it to the extreme hygiene measures to protect its population.
"We want to alert the community because of the risk of spread of the disease," said the deputy director of PAHO, Jon Andrus, at a press conference in Washington relayed by EFE.
Subsidiary of the World Health Organization in Latin America, the regional organization had already informed the two countries dispatched medical teams so that "if the epidemic is over there (in Dominican Rep.) the country does is not affected by the situation. "
So far, no cases of cholera have been detected in neighboring territory, but PAHO has asked the Dominican government to prepare for a possible contagion.
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