Cholera Hits Dominican Republic Resort Hotel Casa De Campo

Cholera hits Dominican Republic Resort Hotel Casa De Campo



A lavish party at a luxury resort with golf, horse riding, swimming pools and lobster: not the typical setting for a cholera outbreak.
Casa de Campo, a five-star complex in the Dominican Republic, has been hit by the disease which has swept though slums and villages in neighboring Haiti.

Dozens of international guests at a family celebration – some reports said it was a wedding – were stricken with vomiting and diarrhea after eating apparently contaminated lobster.

Dominican health officials said that at least 37 of the 500 guests had tested positive for cholera, including Fernando Hazoury, whose family owns a separate luxury resort, and guests from Spain, Mexico and the US.

The health minister, Bautista Rojas, said lobsters for last Saturday's wedding came from Pedernales, a town bordering Haiti, where about 3,800 have died and 189,000 fallen ill since October.

The disease, a south Asian strain suspected to have originated with Nepalese UN peacekeepers stationed in central Haiti, is transmitted by contaminated faeces in water sources.
Dehydrated victims can die within hours, but symptoms are easily treated.

At least 21 Venezuelans who attended the event have been hospitalized, according to Venezuela's health minister, Eugenia Sader. The disease was under control and Venezuelans had no cause for concern, she added.

"We want to inform the nation that it must remain calm because all the cases we have are of those who attended a family gathering in Dominican Republic." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/28/cholera-hits-dominican-republic-resort/print

Colo di: Menm si Ayiti rete yon danje nan zonn nan, mwen twouve pou yon 5 Star Resort, te gen neglijans kelke pa....

Erre ke biszisman Dominiken yo komet se ke yo kontinye itilize emplwaye Aysyen paske yo bon mache e malgre ke yo konnen gen yon pwoblem cholera nan peyi vwazin Ayiti.

Byen ke gen lotion sanitation "Purell" pou employe l'hotel yo, majorite employe ayisyen an memm si li soti nan latrine, li pap pran swen lave men'l. Se sak fe ke'm pa manje "royal air force" an Ayiti anko.
Neglijans yo mete lot pep an danje!

Casa De Campo an quarantine pou rezon saniter e yo ap pedi $250K pa jou san konte aksyon legal ke client yo pral pran kont l'hotel saa.