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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1989
TWO ASES OF CHOLERA CONFIRMED
:
TWO CASES OF CHOLERA WERE
THE OTHER
IMPORTED AND ANNOUNCED TODAY (FRIDAY).
ONE BEING AN HEALTH
OF
LOCAL A
THE
RECENTLY, CONFIRMED CASE,
DEPARTMENT
IN MONG KOK. HE HIS RETURN
THE FIRST CASE WAS A 52-YEAR-OLD MAN LIVING SUFFERED FROM VOMITING AND DIARRHOEA WITHIN TWO DAYS UPON TO HONG KONG AFTER TRAVELLING.
OUT-PATIENT
HE FIRST ATTENDED THE GENERAL CHEUNG SHA WAN JOCKEY CLUB CLINIC ON SEPTEMBER 21, TO KWONG WAH HOSPITAL IN THE SAME AFTERNOON.
DEPARTMENT OF THE AND WAS ADMITTED
RESULTS OF TESTS CONDUCTED BY THE HOSPITAL CONFIRMED PATIENT WAS SUFFERING FROM CHOLERA EL TOR.
NOW
IN
THE PATIENT IS
MARGARET PRINCESS CONDITION WAS DESCRIBED AS SATISFACTORY.
THAT THE
HOSPITAL
AND HIS
AS THE PATIENT HAD BEEN TRAVELLING OUTSIDE HONG KONG THE CASE WAS CLASSIFIED AS AN IMPORTED ONE.
WAS AN 80-YEAR-OLD MAN. HE THE SECOND CASE VOMITING AND DIARRHOEA LAST SATURDAY (SEPTEMBER 23). HE TO QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL ON SUNDAY AND DIED YESTERDAY.
EL TOR.
LABORATORY TESTS CONFIRMED THAT HE HAD
RECENTLY,
FROM SUFFERED
WAS ADMITTED
SUFFERED FROM CHOLERA
AS THE OLD MAN HAD NOT BEEN TRAVELLING OUTSIDE HONG CASE WAS CLASSIFIED AS A LOCAL ONE.
KONG, THE
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, AND THE MEANWHILE, OFFICERS FROM THE
HAD VISITED URBAN SERVICES AND THE REGIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENTS, HOMES OF THE TWO MEN.
THE
BOTH PREMISES WERE DISINFECTED AND PREVENTIVE DRUGS WERE TO THEIR RELATIVES AND CONTACTS.
GIVEN
THE REMINDED HYGIENE TO
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAID THAT DESPITE COMING OF THE COOLER SEASON, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE AGAIN THAT THEY SHOULD OBSERVE PERSONAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD PREVENT THEIR CONTRACTING CHOLERA.
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