Cuba reports two new locally-contracted cases of Zika virus in Holguin - Total: 30 imported cases including two pregnant women, three natives

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Cuba reported on Wednesday two new cases of residents contracting the mosquito-borne Zika virus locally, in a setback for the Caribbean country, that has taken a series of measures in an attempt to stave off the epidemic.

Since the current outbreak of Zika in Brazil last year, where it has been linked to hundreds of cases of a rare birth defect, it has spread rapidly through the Americas.

But Cuba, renowned for its preventative health campaigns, took a series of measures to eliminate the Aedes strain of mosquito that carries Zika, drastically reducing infestations. It had only reported one locally-contracted case until now.

"Last August 1, two new locally contracted cases of the Zika virus were diagnosed, corresponding to residents in the city of Holguin who had not traveled abroad, which brings the total up to three," the Health Ministry said in a statement published by state media.

https://www.wionews.com/world/cuba-reports-two-new-locally-contracted-cases-of-zika-virus-4149

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Cuba reports two new indigenous cases zika

by EFE

Cuba diagnosed two new indigenous cases of the Zika virus in people with no history of travel to another country, said the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) of the island.

The two indigenous cases were confirmed last Monday in the eastern city of Holguin and added to a 21 year old Havana, diagnosed in March.

The two patients detected in Holguin, about 750 kilometers east of Havana, were admitted to the "Lucia I?iguez" Surgical Clinical hospital after presenting symptoms of the disease, said the note from the Ministry, reported by state television.

At the hospital they took blood samples that were sent for study to the laboratory of the Institute of Tropical Medicine "Pedro Kouri" of Havana, where it was determined that they were "positive" to the Zika virus.

Patients continue admitted with "good general condition and favorable evolution," said the official note.

Currently "deepen investigations in the affected area to notify the possible existence of new cases area" and "actions surveillance and vector control" are also developed, the report added.

He also noted that in this situation it is necessary to continue the fight against the mosquito that carries the virus.

The first case Zika virus detected in Cuba was imported by a Venezuelan medical February 28.

Health authorities have confirmed 33 cases of the Zika virus on the island, 30 of them imported, including two pregnant women, plus three natives.
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New cases of Zika activated alarms in Holguin

August 10, 2016
Idolidia Darias / martinoticias.com

The municipality of Holguin reports showing high infestation of Aedes Aegypti, transmitting agent of dengue and Zika, that compromise the health of the population.

Health authorities warned of the complex epidemiological situation in Holguin, caused by the persistence of foci of Aedes Aegypti, transmitting agent of dengue and Zika in the city of the province of the same name.

The alarms were triggered by persistent outbreaks of mosquito in this city and the influx of large numbers of people to the hospital areas with headache, malaise, fever and rash, symptoms that could be related to Zika.

Mail?n Ricardo, a housewife living in that city, said Marti News that "the people are very scared" because there are many cases requiring hospitalization, and the authorities have had to enable more areas of income in the last week.

Ramon Quintana deals in New Llano and the largest number of people affected was detected and "re-enabled areas that in the past were open, to enter those affected now," he said.

serious impacts are also reported in the Alcides Pino deals, Harlem, Vista Alegre and suspected cases have been detected in others, he said.

Although some cars collect waste in the city, hygiene is poor and the worst is that in there are areas where the putrid water of the pits and excrement run through the streets and feel the bad smell everywhere, said women .

The doctor and independent journalist Ramon Zamora shared with Mart? News photos of the city this week, and coincided with the impressions of others interviewed on the subject.

"The situation reached such alarming levels that several polyclinics as Ardaya Mario Gutierrez and Pedro del Toro in the city are not paying and only the emergency services with minimal staff serve. All personnel are mobilized on the streets, "he said.

Several offices, as the number 9, Calle 27, between 34 and Pepito Tey, and number 10, Calle 34, between 27 and Pedro Heredia, both in New Llano, have been activated as command posts, detailed the communicator Independent.

The infected they are enabled in the hospitalized in surgical and pediatric clinical hospitals, where an odyssey for patients and families, who have to carry all kinds of supplies begins rooms.

Health authorities warn the population by the local media to attend medical services to the presence of headache, weakness, fever and skin rash, among other indicators of the disease.

Zamora added that Health Minister Roberto Morales Ojeda moved to the city with a large group of advisors to personally direct the actions.

Monday in an interview with the local channel Telecristal of Holguin, the provincial health director Luis Arlet Gonzalez, said the municipality "reports showing high infestation of Aedes Aegypti, that compromise the health of the population."

In early August in Holguin two indigenous cases of Zika virus reported , according to a briefing note from the Ministry of Public Health, published in the official daily Granma.

In mid-2015, it was decreed in the same city a health emergency by the increase in cases of cholera and dengue.

On that occasion, four hospitals were set up for income and among the measures, was the suspension of the Carnivals held in August.

http://www.martinoticias.com/a/cuba-alarma-zika-holguin-/127722.html