Cuba: 2022 Dengue

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A primary school girl, another victim of hemorrhagic dengue in Cuba
The school where the deceased studied, in Santiago de Cuba, reports the death on her Facebook profile, but deletes the publication.
Santiago de Cuba 18 Jul 2022 - 19:44 CEST


The girl Arlín Sailet Acuña Espinosa, a second-grade student at the José de la Luz y Caballero elementary school, in Contramaestre, Santiago de Cuba, died a victim of hemorrhagic dengue, the educational institution reported in a publication on its Facebook profile.

"A piece of news that we would never have wanted to give. Today we woke up to the sad news of the death of one of our second grade students, Arlín Sailet Acuña Espinosa. Please extend our deepest condolences to all your family and friends," said the school, which later He deleted the publication, which was accompanied by a photo of the little girl.

However, in the Facebook group "Contramaestrenses por el mundo", user Arnoldo Fernández shared a screenshot of the elementary school's publication.

In that same post, Internet user Yanitza Infante, cousin of the deceased, commented: "Condolences to my family... I woke up with the sad news of the death of my little cousin Arlín Sailet Acuña Espinosa from hemorrhagic dengue. It is very sad and hard to see how a loved one of yours dies and even more so being so small".

Although the official media do not report these deaths or indicate to what extent the situation is critical with the increase in cases of the disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, last week the death of another girl from hemorrhagic dengue in Cienfuegos forced the Hospital Paquito González Cueto University Pediatric Hospital in the main city of that province to defend himself from a multitude of criticisms on social networks.

The hospital described the complaints after the death of the girl as "manipulation of the facts", which the Cuban influencer Yessy World identified as Paola Patricia Rodríguez, who according to her publication would have been admitted to the intensive care unit of that medical center for several days. .

Journalist Mario J. Pentón said in a direct interview that he spoke with the minor's family about the event. "What is happening in Cienfuegos is deeply worrying, because the authorities are barely giving information, trying to placate people," the reporter said.

In another complaint through a video on Facebook, mothers of patients at the Cienfuegos Pediatric also pointed out that there are "crowds of children with dengue due to the six-hour blackouts" and that "they do not put the split for energy savings."

Also last week in Camagüey, a pregnant Cuban doctor died of hemorrhagic dengue, according to sources close to the victim. Facebook user Geisler González González identified the deceased only as Mercita, and revealed that the young woman was expecting a baby.

Until June 10, 3,036 cases of dengue had been reported throughout Cuba, but the months of greatest expansion of this disease are yet to come, the Cuban Minister of Public Health, José Ángel Portal Miranda, acknowledged on Thursday.

Portal Miranda also assured that in 2021 dengue "had no significant incidence, associated with the reduction in the movement of people and surveillance."

With this, he contradicted himself: at the beginning of July, in another appearance before the government authorities, the minister said that at the end of June 2,768 cases had been confirmed, a figure that implied 591 fewer than those registered in the same period of 2021. to "make up" the problem the MINSAP, as it did in 2021 in the face of the health crisis caused by Covid-19?

 

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Source: https://oncubanews.com/cuba/cuba-71...dos-de-alto-riesgopor-transmision-del-dengue/


Cuba: 71 municipalities considered "high risk" for dengue transmission
In these municipalities, 11,551 vector breeding sites were detected and represent 85.4% of the foci throughout the Island. Havana and Camagüey present the most complex situation.
by Editorial OnCuba
July 20, 2022
in Cuba

The Cuban Minister of Public Health (MINSAP), José Ángel Portal Miranda, indicated this Tuesday that the country continues to identify dengue transmission in eight provinces, 16 municipalities and 23 health areas. 71 municipalities qualify as “high risk”.

According to these data, echoed by the island's media, at the end of week 28, from July 11 to 16, the provinces with dengue transmission, a disease caused by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, were Pinar del Río , Havana, Matanzas, Villa Clara, Camagüey, Las Tunas, Holguín and Guantánamo.

Portal Miranda specified that 32 patients were admitted to intensive care rooms due to the disease, 29 of them in serious condition and three in critical condition.

Regarding Aedes aegypti outbreaks, he referred that there are 71 municipalities classified as "high risk" in which 11,551 breeding sites of the vector were detected. This is 85.4% of the outbreaks throughout the Island, and where the provinces of Havana and Camagüey present the most complex situation.

For Cuba, according to a Granma report, the statistics show a growth in the incidence rate in recent months. In April it was 12.2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants while in June it climbed to 46.3.

However, this note specifies that in week 28, the incidence rate stood at 27.91 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Aedes aegypti infestation in the April-May-June cycle was 21,505 more foci than in the same period of the previous year.

The data emerged at the meeting of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel with the Government's Temporary Work Group for the prevention and control of the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus.

In said meeting, it was learned that the approved plan to reduce mosquito breeding sites, also a transmitter of dengue, yellow fever, Zika and chikungunya, includes 20 measures for epidemiological surveillance and the fight against the mosquito.

Among them is the treatment with products in water tanks such as cisterns, cisterns and wells, actions against the vector and the review of industrial areas and work centers with the highest risk.

With information from Granma and Efe.

 

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Amid blackouts, food shortages, Cubans face a dengue outbreak that has killed two children
Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald - Yesterday 7:29 PM

Burdened by constant blackouts and food shortages, Cubans are now facing a new dengue outbreak in the middle of the hot summer that threatens again to overwhelm the island’s public health system, already reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dengue is a viral disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, and the government said the levels of mosquito infestation on the island are the worst in the past 15 years. In a meeting Tuesday, Cuban health authorities said they had confirmed 3,036 cases of dengue so far this year. But most people with symptoms, such as fever, vomiting or a rash, do not get tested, as the health system also lacks testing supplies.

Health Ministry officials acknowledged that just in the first week of July, they had identified 14,256 people with “unspecified fever.” The ministry said that figure represented a 42% increase in suspected dengue cases compared to the previous week.

Official figures, however, might not reveal the true extent of the epidemic, for which government officials are giving differing statistics. According to the Communist Party newspaper Granma, there were 27.91 detected cases per 100,000 inhabitants last week. Speaking of the same week, a health official quoted by state media outlet Cubadebate said the rate was lower, 19.7.

In a government meeting Tuesday, Cuba’s Minister of Health, José Angel Portal Miranda, said there was dengue transmission last week in eight provinces: Pinar del Río, Havana, Matanzas, Villa Clara, Camagüey, Las Tunas, Holguín and Guantánamo...

 

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Source: https://www.diariolasamericas.com/muere-otra-nina-cuba-presuntamente-dengue-n4253759

Another girl dies in Cuba presumably of dengue
July 26, 2022 - 7:07 PM
This is the fourth minor deceased in Cuba that has been reported since last week due to the dengue epidemic that affects the Island

A four-year-old girl died on Tuesday at the Centro Habana Pediatric Hospital, according to what the health center reported on her Facebook wall, presumably with symptoms similar to dengue. This is the fourth minor deceased in Cuba that has been reported since last week due to the epidemic of this disease that affects the Island, DIARIO DE CUBA reports.

According to the note from the institution, the girl, who lived in the Havana municipality of Cerro, arrived there "referred from the Cerro Pediatric Hospital, a center specializing in the care of pediatric patients with dengue warning signs."

However, in the Pediatric they would have ruled out that she had that disease. "She is admitted to a room, adequate to the requirements that the little girl had at that time, received by the chief medical guard specialist at 12:53 in the morning. She was received with a canalized vein, indicated maintenance hydration, no fever in those moments, no vomiting," detailed Dr. Erelis Verona Ibañez, director of the hospital and author of the note.

"At 8:00 a.m. she is seen on Sunday's medical visit by the ward specialist. The girl is awake, hydrated, without fever. She only vomited, without signs of dehydration, not tolerating oral intake. It is decided maintain maintenance hydration and reassess".

"At 10:00 AM there is a sudden event, so he is transferred to the PICU room. Our doctors, nurses and paramedical staff battled for 47 minutes, resuscitating, but it was not possible to beat death and his death was declared, with deep pain," he says.

The doctors diagnosed the cause of death as "severe cardiovascular dysfunction with cardiogenic shock, in the course of fulminant myocarditis. We are awaiting autopsy, with family consent."

DIARIO DE CUBA maintains that the article underlined that the complementary studies that were done on the minor to determine dengue infection "were negative. The lumbar puncture performed was also negative," the article stated.


"The director of our hospital met with her family and explained the sad sequence of events that led to her death (...) pending the results of the autopsy, to schedule a new interview," the text ends. .

The note did not offer details on the identity of the deceased.

Due to dengue, four minors have died so far in Cuba. In addition to the little girl from Cerro, last week the death of a girl was reported, whom the influencer Yessy World identified as Paola Patricia Rodríguez, from Cienfuegos; Arlín Sailet Acuña Espinosa, a second-grade student at the José de la Luz y Caballero elementary school, in Contramaestre, Santiago de Cuba, and Claudio Moisés Vera Gallart, 16, also in Cienfuegos.

Apart from that, over the weekend it was learned of the death of a mother from Havana due to the disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, almost 15 after the death of a pregnant woman from Camagüey was announced.

However, the Minister of Public Health, José Ángel Portal Miranda, denied in an intervention on Thursday before the deputies of the National Assembly of People's Power that the Cuban health system was collapsed due to dengue.

"There is no collapse in services, beyond any punctual organizational problem that we may have in some of our institutions," Portal Miranda said, according to the state channel Cubavisión Internacional.

The minister accused the "enemies of the Revolution" of spreading the opinion matrix that the island's health system is collapsed, an assumption that he described as "totally unreal", despite the complaints, including images, of people in overwhelmed hospitals.

Just a few hours later, the official Cuban press itself denied it, through a report from the Doctor Mario Muñoz Monroy General Teaching Hospital, in Colón, Matanzas, published in the Girón newspaper.

There, according to its director, Yailen Pérez Rosales, there are 253 real beds that offer services to children and adults, but the dengue outbreak in recent weeks "threatened the center's care capacities, both in terms of logistics and of human resources", says the text.

In the report itself, the official acknowledged the death in that care center of a 60-year-old man who arrived at the hospital very deteriorated due to dengue.

Just last week, the Centro Habana Pediatric Hospital reported on its Twitter profile: "With the increase in dengue cases, our hospital set up an alternative location for children with warning signs, guaranteeing the attention

 

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Another girl from Guisa dies of dengue, in Granma
The death occurs less than a week after the death of another minor in that eastern city of the island.
Editorial of CyberCuba
| 09/25/2022 - 12:39pm (GMT-4)

Another girl from Guisa, in the province of Granma , died of dengue , according to information from relatives revealed on social networks.

"Rest in peace my girl, we all love you and we will remember you, you will always be in our hearts," user Yunia Álvarez, the minor's aunt, who identified the little girl as Karen in a previous post on her profile on Facebook , posted on Saturday. the social network.

Another relative, who identified himself on the same network as Manuel Ramírez Reyes, said: “We have lost the spoiled girl of the family. How much pain due to Dengue. Rest in peace my Queen."...

...Karen's death occurs less than a week after the death of Melani Leyva Rodríguez, 10 years old, who died at dawn this last Tuesday in Guisa , also a victim of dengue...

...The official Granma newspaper La Demajagua recently reported a complex epidemiological situation in that province, after the increase in infestation rates of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, transmitter of dengue, in its 13 municipalities and a greater number of patients with this virus.

The increase was registered as of September 1 in the cities of Bayamo, Manzanillo, Pilón, Campechuela, Yara, Río Cauto, Cauto Cristo and Guisa.

A few kilometers from Guisa, in the municipality of Contramaestre, belonging to the province of Santiago de Cuba, the girl Arlín Sailet Acuña Espinosa died in mid-July, a victim of hemorrhagic dengue...