The tourists who are arriving in the DR need to be told that cholera is like a bad flu bug that requires medical attention. Hotels can have medical staff standing by with appropriate test equipment and medicines to prevent worsening of conditions.
My wife got exposed in April, was treated promptly and was back to healthy within two days.
The word cholera sounds bad to most people and tourists need proper instruction. If left unattended, one becomes very sick.

The resorts pay their workers minimum wages. Those workers live specifically in the areas at most risk for cholera spreading. What a filthy liar.

Anyone who believes this blow hard I have a bridge to sell you.

We know where it came from. We know who brought it in. We know who is responsible for not acting when there was still time.

This being said, even returning the vectors to their point of origin won't fix the situation.

A perfect control system would involve daily checks of anybody that has to do with food and hygiene in general. Impossible.

If I were a tourist, I'd take my money elsewhere.

These are proper measures for the protection of tourists, but they or something similar are also the proper measures for the protection of the general population, including .those who live in great shantytowns.

But protecting the general population in the DR will be expensive. The least the DR state can do is to make sure that an adequate quantity and quality of treatment facilities ... beds, staff, and medications ... exist if the epedemic should start to swell big time.

Those who believe in Haitian origin of this outbreak in DR may wish to explain why they failed to back LF in demanding a just DR share of the $8B the UN collected, allowing the US imperialist thieves to steal most the money earmarked specifically for this contingency.

Bill Clinton and G. W. Bush, the major thieves, laugh their heads off, while their pockets bulge with most of the $8B of stolen UN relief and recovery funds.

DR should have gotten a contingency fund of at least $400M for this possibility.

Belial:

If Tujillo or Balaguer would be our president today We would be in safe hands like "Allstate Insurance Company" but the matter of fact that We have a weak president surrounded by 3rd class politicians and this doesn't help Dominican Republic at all.

JRRubirosa,

You call LF weak, presumably in respect to LF's response to the cholera. You contrast Tujillo and Balaguer to LF, hinting that Tujillo and Balaguer were strong and would act otherwise in respect cholera. Further, you liken Tujillo and Balaguer to the hands of "Allstate Insurance."

This is quite a bit.

It is difficult to see how Balaguer or Tujillo was "strong" when both were installed by the violence of US imperialists. Balaguer was a puppet. So, he seems weaker that LF because LF was elected without imperial violence.

"Strong" is not the exercise of power in disregard for the law or ethics.

Both men would go after the Haitians if they were now in power.

But bad water seems to cause cholera and cholera doesn't spread people-to-people.

Allstate doesn't promise "strong" hands, rather Allstate promises "good" hands. Neither Tujillo nor Balaguer nor Allstate has or had good or clean hands.

We'll see what, if anything, LF does about bad water