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Onceno diagnose imported case of Zika in Cuba
In this article: Aedes Aegypti , Cuba , Disease , Ministry of Public Health (Public Health Ministry) , Mosquito , Health , Virus , Zika
May 10, 2016 | 4 |
ZikaInformation note by the Ministry of Public Health
the eleventh imported case confirmed with virus Zika, which corresponds to a Cuban citizen, 43-year-old resident in the municipality of Minas de Matahambre province of Pinar del Rio, who arrived in the country on April 30 patient diagnosed from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as a collaborator of Culture.
On May 1 presents temperature of 37 ? C and rash. Assists the guardroom of his polyclinic, where the symptoms and epidemiological history is referred to the Hospital Leon Cuervo Rubio entered and stays there. It takes blood sample, which is sent to the Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri (IPK) to study.
May 9 is reported by the laboratory of IPK that the real-time PCR performed blood to the patient is positive for Zika virus.
He is currently asymptomatic, with good general condition, favorable evolution and continues entered.
http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2016/05/10/diagnostican-el-onceno-caso-importado-de-zika-en-cuba/
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Cuba recorded a new imported case of the Zika virus
Havana |May 11, 2016
(EFE) .- Cuba reported its eleventh imported from the Zika virus, a collaborator of Cuban culture sector was on mission in Venezuela and returned to the island last April 30 case, reported Tuesday the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP).
Confirmed with the virus zika, 43, who lives in the western province of Pinar del Rio, symptoms of fever and rash, on May 1, so he went to the clinic in your area.
Because the symptoms and epidemiological history, it is sent to the hospital "Le?n Cuervo Rubio" of Pinar del Rio, where he was admitted, said the note published by the official media MINSAP on the island.
A blood sample taken there the patient was sent for study at the Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri (IPK) in Havana, reference center which confirmed, on 9 May that the blood test was "positive" virus zika.
The patient is a collaborator of Cuban culture sector he was on mission in Venezuela and returned to the island last April 30
The patient is at the moment "without symptoms, with good general condition, favorable performance" but still entered.
To date, the Cuban health authorities have reported twelve cases of zika in the country, one indigenous, diagnosed in a young Havana no history of foreign travel; and eleven imported, including two pregnant Cuban health collaborators and a Venezuelan doctor who traveled to Cuba to attend graduate school.
Since last February the Public Health authorities of the island intensified program fumigations, inquiries from people with flu-like symptoms, actions sanitation and prevention to combat outbreaks of mosquito of the genus "Aedes" transmitters of the virus zika, dengue and chikungunya.
http://www.14ymedio.com/sociedad/Cuba-registra-importado-virus-Zika_0_1996600323.html
Onceno diagnose imported case of Zika in Cuba
In this article: Aedes Aegypti , Cuba , Disease , Ministry of Public Health (Public Health Ministry) , Mosquito , Health , Virus , Zika
May 10, 2016 | 4 |
ZikaInformation note by the Ministry of Public Health
the eleventh imported case confirmed with virus Zika, which corresponds to a Cuban citizen, 43-year-old resident in the municipality of Minas de Matahambre province of Pinar del Rio, who arrived in the country on April 30 patient diagnosed from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as a collaborator of Culture.
On May 1 presents temperature of 37 ? C and rash. Assists the guardroom of his polyclinic, where the symptoms and epidemiological history is referred to the Hospital Leon Cuervo Rubio entered and stays there. It takes blood sample, which is sent to the Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri (IPK) to study.
May 9 is reported by the laboratory of IPK that the real-time PCR performed blood to the patient is positive for Zika virus.
He is currently asymptomatic, with good general condition, favorable evolution and continues entered.
http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2016/05/10/diagnostican-el-onceno-caso-importado-de-zika-en-cuba/
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Cuba recorded a new imported case of the Zika virus
Havana |May 11, 2016
(EFE) .- Cuba reported its eleventh imported from the Zika virus, a collaborator of Cuban culture sector was on mission in Venezuela and returned to the island last April 30 case, reported Tuesday the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP).
Confirmed with the virus zika, 43, who lives in the western province of Pinar del Rio, symptoms of fever and rash, on May 1, so he went to the clinic in your area.
Because the symptoms and epidemiological history, it is sent to the hospital "Le?n Cuervo Rubio" of Pinar del Rio, where he was admitted, said the note published by the official media MINSAP on the island.
A blood sample taken there the patient was sent for study at the Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri (IPK) in Havana, reference center which confirmed, on 9 May that the blood test was "positive" virus zika.
The patient is a collaborator of Cuban culture sector he was on mission in Venezuela and returned to the island last April 30
The patient is at the moment "without symptoms, with good general condition, favorable performance" but still entered.
To date, the Cuban health authorities have reported twelve cases of zika in the country, one indigenous, diagnosed in a young Havana no history of foreign travel; and eleven imported, including two pregnant Cuban health collaborators and a Venezuelan doctor who traveled to Cuba to attend graduate school.
Since last February the Public Health authorities of the island intensified program fumigations, inquiries from people with flu-like symptoms, actions sanitation and prevention to combat outbreaks of mosquito of the genus "Aedes" transmitters of the virus zika, dengue and chikungunya.
http://www.14ymedio.com/sociedad/Cuba-registra-importado-virus-Zika_0_1996600323.html