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Cuba announces 1st case of pregnant woman with Zika virus
Published March 24, 2016EFE
Cuba on Thursday announced its sixth imported Zika case, a pregnant Cuban doctor who arrived on the island on March 15 from the northwestern Venezuelan state of Lara, the Public Health Ministry said in a statement published in the local press.
The case is the first on the Caribbean island involving a pregnant woman with Zika...
The 32-year-old patient, a resident of the western province of Artemisa, was tested because she was 19 weeks pregnant and had arrived from an area with a risk of transmission of the disease, even though she had no symptoms, the ministry said.
The Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute in Havana confirmed the positive result on Tuesday.
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Published March 24, 2016EFE
Cuba on Thursday announced its sixth imported Zika case, a pregnant Cuban doctor who arrived on the island on March 15 from the northwestern Venezuelan state of Lara, the Public Health Ministry said in a statement published in the local press.
The case is the first on the Caribbean island involving a pregnant woman with Zika...
The 32-year-old patient, a resident of the western province of Artemisa, was tested because she was 19 weeks pregnant and had arrived from an area with a risk of transmission of the disease, even though she had no symptoms, the ministry said.
The Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute in Havana confirmed the positive result on Tuesday.
...
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/he...nces-1st-case-pregnant-woman-with-zika-virus/