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http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/health/2016/04/06/lack-of-clean-water-in-venezuela-leading-to-increase-in-infectous-diseases/The scarcity of clean water and personal hygiene products has increased the cases of scabies, malaria, diarrhea and amoebiasis in Venezuela, the director of epidemiology with the central state of Miranda's health department warned on Wednesday.
"The lack of access to a constant supply of good-quality water brings with it, as a consequence, an increase in diarrhetic syndromes because there is less water for cleaning food and utensils," Miguel Viscuña said in comments cited by the opposition coalition MUD.
The physician also said that the storing of water in homes carries the risk of increasing disease vectors such as the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which - he added - has modified its habits and "has become an indoor creature," a situation that is seen reflected in the increase of dengue, Zika and Chikungunya.
"If the scarcity of (clean) water ... added to the scanty access to personal hygiene products ... is causing outbreaks for us of dermatological diseases such as scabies," Viscuña said.
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Lack of clean water in Venezuela leading to increase in infectious diseases (Original Post)
Bacchus4.0
Apr 2016
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COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)1. "Viva la revolucion bolivariana"
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)2. "if you can!" nt
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)3. Fewer and fewer these days (except of course for the
Chavez/Maduro cast of characters who, as the saying goes, "came to do good and did very well".)