Cuba: 2014 Dengue cases

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Source: http://www.cadenagramonte.cu/englis...orities-alert-on-increasing-dengue-prevalence

Saturday, August 30, 2014
Cuban Health Authorities Alert on Increasing Dengue Prevalence

Havana, Cuba, Aug 30.- The prevalence of Dengue in many countries of the world continues to pose a complex situation said Cuban health authorities who alerted that the presence on the island of all four Dengue types triggers major concern.

The alert was made by Doctor Gilberto Zamora, expert with the Ministry of Health during a prime-time TV show on Friday.

Dengue has been identified in 35 Cuban municipalities, 15 of them in Havana, said Doctor Zamora, who called for a higher preparation of health professionals and the people after the four types of the virus have appeared in the country.

Doctor Rosaida Ochoa, head of Unit for Health Promotion and Prevention of Diseases, insisted in the need to take all precaution measures at homes, workplaces and schools to prevent the spread of Dengue.

She said that such measures will also protect the people from Chikungunya virus, which has been reported in only 13 imported cases...

 

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Re: Cuba: 2014 Dengue cases

Source: http://www.martinoticias.com/content/cuba-dengue-chikungunya-colera-holguin-pcc/78787.html

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Cuba
Dengue, Chikungunya and diarrhea afflicting Holguin, supported communist chief

"High infestation" of dengue have forced hospital, as revealed by the first secretary of the PCC in the territory. Risk perception is low, warning specialist.
Rolando Cartaya
November 1, 2014

The Cuban province of Holguin faces a "difficult hygienic epidemiological situation marked by a high level of infestation of dengue," the provincial government newspaper reported quoting now head of the Communist Party of Cuba in the territory.

"We have to clean up. You can not be irresponsible, "he urged Thursday Ir?bar Luis Torres, member of the Central Committee of the single party and its first secretary in Holguin during a meeting of economic analysis,

During that meeting. Marcia Aguero, vice president of the provincial government announced that Holguin has the highest focal Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the past 17 years, and is now second only to Havana in that aspect.

However, Holguin not fully aware of the risk they face, according to the deputy director of Hygiene and Epidemiology in the province, Nilo Rodriguez. The specialist said that "the perception of risk is very low and the outlook is worse because there are cases of Chikungunya, acute diarrhea, and gastrointestinal." The Cuban media use terms recent mention frequently to avoid cholera reappeared in the country in mid-2012.
More than 3000 medical students have been mobilized in Holguin due to high infestation dengue.M?s 3000 medical students have been mobilized in Holguin due to high infestation of dengue.

"We have identified weaknesses in controls foci, promotion of health, state health inspections, waste collection, cycles water, level of response of some agencies and social determinants, in addition to weak presence of health assurances in food service and existence of landfills, among other problems, "said Rodriguez.

Torres Iribar revealed that the dengue situation has forced enable a hospital in the Nursing Branch, with 224 beds, and mobilize more than 3,000 students from the provincial Medical University to participate in the screening of housing deposit abatizaci?n water and other chores.

The high number of dengue cases on the eve of the 1st conclude this was reported. November hurricane season, whose heavy rains often lead to a high infestation of mosquitoes carrying dengue and Chikungunya.


H / T Emilio Ichikawa