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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1987

LOCAL CHOLERA CASE CONFIRMED

A 16-YEAR-OLD BOY LIVING IN A SQUATTER AREA IN SAN PO KONG TODAY (FRIDAY) CONFIRMED TO BE A CHOLERA CASE REPORTED THIS YEAR.

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FOR

THE BOY DEVELOPED DIARRHOEA ATTENDED THE OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT TREATMENT ON SEPTEMBER 7.

RESULTS OF HIS

AND FEVER ON SEPTEMBER OF EAST KOWLOON POLYCLINIC

STOOL TEST YESTERDAY REVEALED THAT HE SUFFERING FROM CHOLERA EL TOR. THE BOY WAS IMMEDIATELY SENT PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOR FURTHER OBSERVATION AND TREATMENT. CONDITION WAS DESCRIBED AS GOOD TODAY.

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BEFORE THE ONSET OF ILLNESS, THE ILLEGAL HAWKER STALLS.

PATIENT HAD TAKEN

FOOD AT

ALSO

MEMBERS OTHER PO

HEALTH WORKERS FROM THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT VISITED THE PATIENT'S SQUATTER HOME TO GIVE THE FIVE FAMILY MEDICAL EXAMINATION AND PREVENTIVE DRUGS. THEY ALSO TRACED NINE CONTACTS AT HIS MOTHER'S HOME IN ANOTHER TENEMENT BUILDING AT KONG. BOTH PREMISES WERE DISINFECTED BY URBAN SERVICES WORKERS..

SAN DEPARTMENT

SINCE THE PATIENT HAD NOT TRAVELLED ABROAD RECENTLY, WAS CLASSIFIED A LOCAL ONE.

THE

CASE

NEW

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID THE REPORT OF THIS CASE IN HONG KONG SHOULD NOT BE A CAUSE FOR PUBLIC ALARM SINCE CHOLERA EL TOR IS ENDEMIC IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD.

"IT IS BECAUSE OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF OUR SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME ON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AT THE GENERAL OUTPATIENT CLINICS THAT THIS CASE WAS DETECTED.

THE REPORT OF THIS CASE SHOULD SERVE AS A REMINDER THAT THE DISEASE IS PRESENT IN THIS REGION.

AND

ALL FOOD

THE SPOKESMAN URGED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO TAKE PREVENTIVE AND PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES BY OBSERVING PERSONAL HYGIENE BOTH AT HOME AND WHILE TRAVELLING ABROAD.

"THE PREVENTION OF CHOLERA EL TOR IS NOW PART OF THE DIARRHOEA DISEASES CONTROL PROGRAMME WHICH IS ON-GOING AND GREAT EMPHASIS PLACED ON ADHERENCE TO PERSONAL, FOOD AND ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE.

IS

THE LAST CHOLERA CASE CONFIRMED IN HONG KONG WAS IN OCTOBER 1986 DURING WHICH A TOTAL OF 30 CHOLERA CASES WERE RECORDED.

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