01 February 2011

VENEZUELA: New Cholera Strain The Deadliest Yet; DR Wedding Infects 135.

GUARDIAN / Paul Benkimoun /

    A hybrid cholera strain called vibrio cholerae that first appeared several years ago is causing more frequent and more severe epidemics and a higher death rate.

   In Venezuela, 135 people are being treated for cholera after they were infected at a wedding in the Dominican Republic, where the disease has spilled over from an epidemic in Haiti.
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