Epidemiological Alert: Weekly Update on the Cholera Situation as EW 51 (19 – 25 December) (3 January 2011)

During the epidemiological week (EW) 51, at a national level, the MSPP registered 16,838 new cases, 26.5% less than the previous week (22,920 new cases).
According to the Ministry of Public Health from Dominican Republic , since the beginning of the detection of the first case of cholera in the Dominican Republic (EW 46 ), until the 28th of December of 2010, the Ministry of Public Health of the Dominican Republic has registered 131 cases of cholera with laboratory confirmation, of which 78% (103) were hospitalized. Up to this date no deaths have been registered.

 Epidemiological Alert: Weekly Update on the Cholera Situation EW 51 (19 – 25 of December) (3 January 2011)