Disease Prevention and Control / Communicable Diseases / Malaria
Official Communiqué: Commission of Health and Tourism Guarantees Absolute Malaria Control(Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 9 December 2004) | ||
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On December 9, 2004, local health authorities in the Dominican Republic issued the following update: Following the completion of the data collection corresponding to Epidemiologic Week (EW) 48 (November 28 to December 4), and according to the data from the Nation Center for Control of Tropical Diseases (Centro Nacional de Control de Enfermedades Tropicales / CENCET), the endemic curve of malaria is within the safe zone. In epidemiological terms, the safe zone signifies that the endemic disease is under control. For EW 49 (from December 5 to date), no cases have been reported in the Province of La Altagracia. Doctors have been placed at the major construction sites in the area, to guarantee the periodical evaluation of the workers entering and leaving the sites, allowing for the sustained control of malaria in the zone. The National Coordinator for the Malaria Program and those responsible for Entomological and Vector Control are regularly performing observations. Furthermore, vector control teams are taking entomological supervisory actions, searching for and controlling the breading places of the Anopheles albimanus and controlling the adult mosquitoes through thermic fogging using Malathion and cold fogging using permetrinas during the nights." Source: Report to PAHO from the Communications Bureau. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: State Secretariat for Public Health, State Secretariat for Tourism (Secretaría de Estado de Salud Pública, Secretaría de Estado de Turismo) (9 December 2004). |
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