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Twenty cases of Zika virus in Cuba
Health officials confirmed the figure to CubaNet. The government has been quick to recognize only one case
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 | Osniel Carmona Breijo |
HAVANA, Cuba.- Hygiene and Epidemiology officials who requested anonymity to avoid reprisals have confirmed that, until February 28, the health authorities had recorded 21 cases of the Zika virus in Cuba.
Meanwhile, the government of the island continues to deny the presence of the disease in the country.
The information provided by epidemiologists agree with another offered last week by reservists mobilized for a medical operation that includes 9,000 army troops and was announced by Raul Castro himself week. According to three recruits -whose names we remain in the anonymity receiving a training workshop to reduce the presence of the Aedes aegypti mosquito vector -main Zika disease and dengue fever, a senior official of the Revolutionary Armed Forces commented during training twenty cases of Zika already had.
At eight o'clock this morning, the Ministry of Public Health issued the latest report on the disease without notifying any case. The Cuban government would seek to prevent people enter panic and do not affect sectors such as tourism, one of the main branches of the insular economy.
Officials consulted by this newspaper report that diagnostic statistics issued by the Pedro Kouri -the only institution certified paradicha function- Hospital, the handle only the central level of the Ministry of Public Health and a National Command Post where in addition to health specialists include authorities political and military.
"The orientation for the base system (primary and hospital care) is that there is still Zika, all belong to the dengue cases analyzed. For now believe it is better that people remain uninformed, and not create a fuss unless it becomes very evident, "they said.
At the same time, in other ways it was learned that in the municipality of San Nicolas de Bari, Mayabeque Province, the home of a woman diagnosed with dengue has this full-time medical staff and police presence; circumstances that cause suspicion in the community, where for days the presence of the virus Zika rumored. The woman allegedly called Mayl?n Sanchez and is 36 years old.
Zika has affected the thirty countries in the Americas. It is suspected that several cases of microcephaly in newborns are linked to the virus.
Update, March 2 .- Hours after CubaNet unveiled the presence of Zika on the island, the Cuban government has recognized as the first case of a Venezuelan doctor of 28 who arrived in the country on 21 February.
MINSAP said in a statement reported in local media, the affected is hospitalized at the Institute of Tropical Medicine "Pedro Kouri" since February 24 after presenting in the two days prior symptoms such as fever of 37.5 degrees Celsius, rash face and trunk, plus joint pain.
This is the only case that the authorities have decided to bring to light so far. (With information from EFE)
https://www.cubanet.org/destacados/c...-zika-en-cuba/
Twenty cases of Zika virus in Cuba
Health officials confirmed the figure to CubaNet. The government has been quick to recognize only one case
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 | Osniel Carmona Breijo |
HAVANA, Cuba.- Hygiene and Epidemiology officials who requested anonymity to avoid reprisals have confirmed that, until February 28, the health authorities had recorded 21 cases of the Zika virus in Cuba.
Meanwhile, the government of the island continues to deny the presence of the disease in the country.
The information provided by epidemiologists agree with another offered last week by reservists mobilized for a medical operation that includes 9,000 army troops and was announced by Raul Castro himself week. According to three recruits -whose names we remain in the anonymity receiving a training workshop to reduce the presence of the Aedes aegypti mosquito vector -main Zika disease and dengue fever, a senior official of the Revolutionary Armed Forces commented during training twenty cases of Zika already had.
At eight o'clock this morning, the Ministry of Public Health issued the latest report on the disease without notifying any case. The Cuban government would seek to prevent people enter panic and do not affect sectors such as tourism, one of the main branches of the insular economy.
Officials consulted by this newspaper report that diagnostic statistics issued by the Pedro Kouri -the only institution certified paradicha function- Hospital, the handle only the central level of the Ministry of Public Health and a National Command Post where in addition to health specialists include authorities political and military.
"The orientation for the base system (primary and hospital care) is that there is still Zika, all belong to the dengue cases analyzed. For now believe it is better that people remain uninformed, and not create a fuss unless it becomes very evident, "they said.
At the same time, in other ways it was learned that in the municipality of San Nicolas de Bari, Mayabeque Province, the home of a woman diagnosed with dengue has this full-time medical staff and police presence; circumstances that cause suspicion in the community, where for days the presence of the virus Zika rumored. The woman allegedly called Mayl?n Sanchez and is 36 years old.
Zika has affected the thirty countries in the Americas. It is suspected that several cases of microcephaly in newborns are linked to the virus.
Update, March 2 .- Hours after CubaNet unveiled the presence of Zika on the island, the Cuban government has recognized as the first case of a Venezuelan doctor of 28 who arrived in the country on 21 February.
MINSAP said in a statement reported in local media, the affected is hospitalized at the Institute of Tropical Medicine "Pedro Kouri" since February 24 after presenting in the two days prior symptoms such as fever of 37.5 degrees Celsius, rash face and trunk, plus joint pain.
This is the only case that the authorities have decided to bring to light so far. (With information from EFE)
https://www.cubanet.org/destacados/c...-zika-en-cuba/