Prensa Latina rarely covers cholera in Cuba, and it's not very accurate in covering it elsewhere: Brote de cólera en cárcel dominicana deja tres muertos. [Cholera outbreak in Dominican jail leaves three dead] The report, with my translation and then a comment:
Al menos tres presos de la penitenciaría dominicana La Victoria, en las afueras de esta capital, murieron hasta hoy con síntomas de cólera, aseguraron familiares de las víctimas.
At least three prisoners in La Victoria penitentiary, on the outskirts of Santo Domingo, have died with cholera symptoms, the victims' relatives say.
De acuerdo con los denunciantes del hecho, otros reclusos también perdieron la vida y están en el Instituto Nacional de Patología Forense en espera de ser identificados.
According to the people protesting the situation, other prisoners have also died and their bodies at in the National Institute of Forensic Pathology awaiting tests.
Reportes de prensa divulgaron que varios afectados con dicho padecimiento, mortal sino es tratado a tiempo y de manera adecuada, reciben atenciones médicas en un hospital de Santo Domingo.
News reports say that several persons affected with the disease, which is mortal if not treated in time and properly, are under medical care in Santo Domingo.
Otro brote de cólera dañó a inicios de 2013 a más de 60 reclusos de una cárcel de la oriental provincia de La Altagracia, y se reportó el fallecimiento de dos de ellos.
Another cholera outbreak early in 2013 sickened over 60 prisoners in a jail in the eastern province of La Altagracia, and two of them are reported to have died.
El Ministerio de Salud Pública precisó en enero pasado que en 2012 murieron en Dominicana 65 personas por este mal, y la enfermedad se mantiene en alta.
The Ministry of Public Health said in January that 65 persons died of cholera in 2012, and the disease persists.The reporter should know that untreated cholera isn't inevitably mortal. At its very worst, in some parts of Haiti early in that outbreak, the case fatality rate was about 15 per cent—horribly high, but not universally deadly.
