Cuba reports more imported cases of Chikungunya

[Gert van der Hoek]

Tuesday, 06.10.14

Mosquito-borne virus Chikungunya may have arrived in Cuba

A disease first detected in the Caribbean in December has been spreading rapidly from island to island.

BY JUAN O. TAMAYO

Cuban doctors already facing outbreaks of dengue and cholera are now reporting the island’s first cases of Chikungunya, a painful, mosquito-borne fever spreading across the Caribbean, according to an independent journalist.

Doctors at the Vladimir Ilich Lenin General University Hospital in the eastern city of Holguín have confirmed dozens of cases of the fever in several parts of eastern Cuba, Mario Hechavarria reported for the Hablemos Press news agency.

Hospital workers told him that dozens of cases had been confirmed with laboratory tests and that national health officials have turned a school outside of Holguín into a hospital to treat the patients and keep them isolated, Hechavarria said Tuesday.

Cuban authorities have not publicly confirmed any cases of Chikungunya. But they have long been reluctant to comment on similar diseases, apparently to avoid scaring away foreign tourists who are one of the island’s key sources of income.

Read more: Miami Herald


See also: Brote de fiebre Chikungunya en Cuba

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[Gert van der Hoek]

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Cuba ready to face the presence of Chikungunya virus

This virus is transmitted to humans by the bite of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes (both present in the country). So far in the country have detected six people affected by the virus. Call to intensify vector control being done in the country.

Juventud Rebelde

digital@juventudrebelde.cu

June 17, 2014

In December 2013, the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization issued the first epidemiological alert on the entry of Chikungunya virus in the Caribbean region, reporting to date transmission in 16 countries region.

Since the reporting of the first cases, the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba issued indication to strengthen surveillance and control measures for travelers arriving from countries with risk of the disease, mainly in the Caribbean area.

In the report of June 6, the Pan American Health Organization reported a cumulative total of 130 941 suspected cases of the disease in 4486 confirmed autochthonous; further 35 were imported cases reported in six countries, including: United States, Panama, Chile, Aruba, Barbados and Cuba.

So far in the country have detected six people affected by Chikungunya virus, almost all Cuban citizens linked to illegal trade, who have recently traveled, and often do Haiti (5) and Dominican Republic (1) . All patients developing well. Unlike those, the Cuban collaborators before traveling to our country are subjected to a strict quarantine.

Press release by Ministry of Public Health in Granma, the official government newspaper.

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Source: http://www.interaksyon.com/article/89406/chikungunya-virus-reported-in-cuba-amid-caribbean-outbreak

Chikungunya virus reported in Cuba amid Caribbean outbreak
By: Agence France-Presse
June 19, 2014 2:20 AM

The online news portal of TV5

HAVANA - Cuban health authorities confirmed six cases of the mosquito-born chikungunya virus Wednesday, the latest in a spate of Caribbean countries reporting the fever-causing disease in their backyard.

The health ministry said that most of the cases were linked to individuals who had traveled recently, likely to Haiti or the Dominican Republic.

In its statement, in state-run newspaper Granma, the ministry added that the patients were "progressing well."...

 

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Up to eleven cases of chikungunya virus registered in Cuba

lainformacion.com

Wednesday, 07/02/14 - 3:37

The cases of chikungunya virus diagnosed in Cuba have risen to eleven and all have been imported, said today a director of the Ministry of Health Public (Minsap) of the island.

Havana , July 1 -. cases diagnosed chikungunya virus in Cuba have risen to eleven and all have been imported, said today a director of the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) of the island.

The National Director of Monitoring and Control of Minsap, Reynaldo Ruffin said in an appearance on state television that have also evaluated 50 patients "suspected" of having contracted chikungunya virus.

He also stated that the eleven cases detected to date in the island were primarily Haiti and Dominican Republic .

The presence of six cases of the disease in Cuba, was confirmed on 18 June in a note released by the Minsap, which indicated that nearly all concerned were "linked to illegal trade Cubans," five of them who had traveled Haiti and Dominican Republic to another.

 

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Cuba registers 2 new cases of chikungunya have 13 and those affected by virus

Cuba reported two new cases of chikungunya, which amounts to 13 the total number of diagnosed with the virus in the country since June, said today the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap).

Last June the Cuban health authorities first confirmed the presence of chikungunya virus in the island with six cases.

The last official report on the virus was on the 1st of July, when it was reported that diagnosed cases had risen to 11, most imported from Haiti and Dominican Republic.

In addressing this Saturday the current epidemiological situation of the country, stressed that Cuba gives Sant?n "national priority" to the fight against aedes aegypti mosquito, vector of chikungunya and transmitter of dengue.

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