9 February 2011: Cholera – situation in Haiti and Dominican Republic – update
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While in the Dominican Republic, the Ministry of Public Health informed that since EW 45 of 2010 to EW 4 of 2011, there were 336 cases confirmed by laboratory and one death that happened in EW 2. |
In Haiti,during the fourth EW of 2011 Haiti registered a decrease in the weekly incidence rate at the national level, which went from 13.6 cholera cases per 10,000 inhabitants in EW 3 to 8.1 cases per 10,000 inhabitants in EW 4. At department level, three departments (Artibonite, Grande Anse, Nord and Sud) increased their weekly incidence rate. The in-hospital case fatality rate at the national level in EW 4 of 2011 was 1.0%.