Increase hand washing, as is done with the covid-19 pandemicand avoiding food consumption on public roads are just some of the measures recommended by experts to prevent the spread of cholera.
The authorities insist on the need for the population to avoid contact with someone who is eventually contaminated.
The anger It is an acute diarrheal disease transmitted through food and water contaminated with the bacteria Vibrio Cholerae. Most cases develop mild dehydration, but 20 percent develop moderate to severe dehydration, and people die of dehydration.
The country is facing an epidemiological alert with which the population is asked to consume well-cooked food and drinks prepared with drinking water.
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The impact of cholera
Cholera causes severe diarrhea and dehydration. If left untreated, cholera can be fatal within hours, even in previously healthy people.
Modern water and sewage treatment has virtually eliminated cholera in industrialized countries, but it exists in Africa and nations like Haiti. The risk of a cholera epidemic is greater when poverty, war or natural disasters force people to live in crowded conditions without proper hygiene.
Cholera is easily treated, severity and extreme dehydration can be prevented with a simple rehydration solution.
country on alert
From the moment a case was reported in the country, a health alert and a fence were placed around the people who were close to the infected patient.
Cholera has been on the island since 2010, The greatest impact and death toll was in Haiti.
The first case of cholera in the Dominican Republic was confirmed on November 15, 2010. In two years there were almost 28,000 cases in the DR and more than 400 deaths. In Haiti, it is estimated that it affected 820,000 people and the number of deaths was 9,792.
