Via CIDRAP: NEWS SCAN: Dengue vaccine trial, cholera in the Caribbean, measles protection gaps, US-Canada animal disease agreement. Click through for the full report and links. Excerpt:
Haiti has now recorded 638,511 cases of cholera since the outbreak began in October 2010, with 352,532 patients (55%) hospitalized and 7,943 dead, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said in an update this week. Case-fatality rates have varied from 0.7% in Port-au-Prince to 4.0% in Grand Anse.
Cases in the neighboring Dominican Republic, where the outbreak began in November 2010, have reached 29,490, of which 426 have been fatal.
The report also confirms that Cuba has had 51 cholera cases this year through Jan 14, a total that was reported earlier this week by the media.
