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Cuba confirmed the tenth case of the virus on the island Zika
Published April 13, 2016EFE
HAVANA - Cuba confirmed the tenth case of the Zika virus on the island, the ninth imported, a resident in Venezuela Cuban citizen who came to the Caribbean country last April 8, reported today the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP).
The patient, a native of Cotorro municipality, in Havana, began to experience symptoms on April 4 while still in the Venezuelan nation, specifies the official statement MINSAP.
Upon arriving in Cuba attends the Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri (IPK), "where he is admitted to the study and treatment" and later the positive result to the Zika virus is confirmed.
According to the official report, the patient "remains hospitalized with good general and asymptomatic state".
So far, the Caribbean island has confirmed ten cases of zika, one native, diagnosed in a 21-year Havana without history of travel abroad, nine imported, including two pregnant women and a Venezuelan doctor who He traveled to Cuba to attend graduate school.
Cuban health authorities currently perform the second phase of a campaign to eliminate mosquitoes of the genus "Aedes aegypti" transmitters Zika viruses, chikungunya and dengue.
Cuba has deployed since last February an action plan to combat mosquitoes, including the mobilization of 9,000 troops of the Armed Forces and 200 police in charge of the weekly sprayings in homes and workplaces.
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/esp...ka-en-la-isla/
Cuba confirmed the tenth case of the virus on the island Zika
Published April 13, 2016EFE
HAVANA - Cuba confirmed the tenth case of the Zika virus on the island, the ninth imported, a resident in Venezuela Cuban citizen who came to the Caribbean country last April 8, reported today the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP).
The patient, a native of Cotorro municipality, in Havana, began to experience symptoms on April 4 while still in the Venezuelan nation, specifies the official statement MINSAP.
Upon arriving in Cuba attends the Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri (IPK), "where he is admitted to the study and treatment" and later the positive result to the Zika virus is confirmed.
According to the official report, the patient "remains hospitalized with good general and asymptomatic state".
So far, the Caribbean island has confirmed ten cases of zika, one native, diagnosed in a 21-year Havana without history of travel abroad, nine imported, including two pregnant women and a Venezuelan doctor who He traveled to Cuba to attend graduate school.
Cuban health authorities currently perform the second phase of a campaign to eliminate mosquitoes of the genus "Aedes aegypti" transmitters Zika viruses, chikungunya and dengue.
Cuba has deployed since last February an action plan to combat mosquitoes, including the mobilization of 9,000 troops of the Armed Forces and 200 police in charge of the weekly sprayings in homes and workplaces.
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/esp...ka-en-la-isla/