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Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 7:51 a.m.
Cuba confirmed new cases of Zika imported from Venezuela
EFE
Cuba confirmed 3 new patients and of Zika virus in total add 25 imported cases have been reported in Venezuela, he said Thursday on state television.
In these cases, the presence of the Zika virus was diagnosed at a Cuban traveler who was in Guyana for personal reasons, and 2 collaborators of the island who returned from Honduras and Venezuela, who reside in municipalities in the provinces of Ciego de Avila, Villa Clara and Havana, said the official note.
At the beginning symptoms of the virus, one patient was admitted to the Antonio Luaces Provincial Hospital of Ciego de Avila, and the other two at the Institute of Tropical Medicine "Pedro Kouri" (IPK) in Havana, where they were they took blood samples for study.
On July 12 IPK's laboratory reported that tests were positive to the Zika virus.
The report indicated that the 3 patients "remain hospitalized, with good general condition and favorable evolution".
To date in Cuba they have been diagnosed 26 cases of the Zika virus, 25 of them imported and only one native, which was detected last March in a young Havana who has no history of travel abroad.
http://www.el-carabobeno.com/noticia...s-de-venezuela
Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 7:51 a.m.
Cuba confirmed new cases of Zika imported from Venezuela
EFE
Cuba confirmed 3 new patients and of Zika virus in total add 25 imported cases have been reported in Venezuela, he said Thursday on state television.
In these cases, the presence of the Zika virus was diagnosed at a Cuban traveler who was in Guyana for personal reasons, and 2 collaborators of the island who returned from Honduras and Venezuela, who reside in municipalities in the provinces of Ciego de Avila, Villa Clara and Havana, said the official note.
At the beginning symptoms of the virus, one patient was admitted to the Antonio Luaces Provincial Hospital of Ciego de Avila, and the other two at the Institute of Tropical Medicine "Pedro Kouri" (IPK) in Havana, where they were they took blood samples for study.
On July 12 IPK's laboratory reported that tests were positive to the Zika virus.
The report indicated that the 3 patients "remain hospitalized, with good general condition and favorable evolution".
To date in Cuba they have been diagnosed 26 cases of the Zika virus, 25 of them imported and only one native, which was detected last March in a young Havana who has no history of travel abroad.
http://www.el-carabobeno.com/noticia...s-de-venezuela