Duarte is a province of the Dominican Republic. It is named after Juan Pablo Duarte, founder of the Dominican Republic. San Francisco de Macoris is the third largest city in the Dominican Republic. ... To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here areas between 1,000 km² and 10,000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... ISO 3166-2 codes for Dominican Republic. ... The Dominican Republic is divided into 31 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia) (capitals in parentheses, if different from province name). ... Juan Pablo Duarte (Santo Domingo, 1813 – Caracas, 1876), together with Franciso del Rosario Sánchez and Matías Ramón Mella, is one of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic. ...
Because P. falciparum malaria can be rapidly fatal, travelers and clinicians need to be aware of malaria risk areas so that travelers can take appropriate preventive measures, and, in case of febrile illness, obtain timely and accurate diagnosis and treatment.
In November 2004, CDC received reports of two cases of laboratory confirmed Plasmodium falciparum malaria in American travelers returning from a resort area in La Altagracia Province and from urban areas in DuarteProvince.
An additional 14 cases of malaria were reported in European and Canadian travelers who had visited resorts in La Altagracia Province.