Zika virus: Cuba reports 1st travel case in Venezuelan doctor

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Zika virus: Cuba reports 1st travel case in Venezuelan doctor

Health Ministry made no mention of any case of Zika transmitted inside Cuba

The Associated Press Posted: Mar 02, 2016 9:25 AM ET Last Updated: Mar 02, 2016 9:25 AM ET

Cuba announced Wednesday that it had detected the first case of the Zika virus on the island, which had been one of the last nations in the Western Hemisphere free of the disease.

The Ministry of Health said in state media that a 28-year-old Venezuelan post-doctoral student in gastroenterology arrived in the country Feb. 21 and a day later came down a high fever and rash. The government says the woman was under medical quarantine in Artemisa province outside Havana with other newly arrived doctors when her symptoms were detected.

An initial test for Zika was negative but a second test on Feb. 28 was positive, health officials said. The woman remains hospitalized in good condition at Cuba's main tropical disease hospital in Havana, officials said. The woman's husband and brother-in-law had both come down with Zika in Venezuela in recent weeks. The medical professionals who had entered Cuba alongside the sick woman remain in quarantine with no sign of Zika, officials said.

The Health Ministry made no mention of any case of Zika transmitted inside Cuba.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/zika-cuba-1.3472233

 

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the first imported case of Zika virus diagnosed in Cuba

• SOURCE: GRANMA
• MARCH 2, 2016

Ministry of Public Health of Cuba

The first case diagnosed imported virus Zika in Cuba. It is a Venezuelan health of 28 - year-old, who arrived in the country on February 21, 2016, from the state of Aragua, to receive a graduate of Gastroenterology.

The doctor stayed in the Student Residence Machurrucutu, municipality Bauta, Artemisa province, along with 37 other doctors, with the aim of making the actions established epidemiological surveillance (International Health Control).

On February 22 he began to show slight fever of 37.5 degrees Celsius and 23 February in the evening hours, appeared rash on the face and trunk, plus arthralgia (joint pain). On February 24, she was admitted to the Institute of Tropical Medicine "Pedro Kouri", where he is hospitalized.From that day it has remained afebrile, with good general condition and has been disappearing rash. It did not provide conjunctivitis.

He said a precedent that her husband suffered from Zika, clinically diagnosed two months ago and his brother also had the disease two weeks before she traveled.

On February 25 it was reported that the result of the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) in real Zika virus, carried to the patient at the time of admission time was negative. However, this result does not coincide with the clinical and epidemiological history, sampling was repeated on 28 February. On February 29 it was reported that the PCR was positive with which the diagnosis of the first imported case of Zika virus was confirmed in our country.

The rest of the professionals who are in epidemiological surveillance, has not presented so far no symptoms.

http://www.sld.cu/noticia/2016/03/02...ortado-en-cuba