Second Confirmed Zika HCW ex-Venezuela In Cuba

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Cuba announced today the second imported case of the Zika virus, diagnosed a nurse on the island to return to the country on February 23 last from Venezuela, where paid health cooperation, said the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP).

Cuban nurse, 51, who lives in the eastern city of Manzanillo, Granma province, presented the same day 23 a 'rash (rash) skin accompanied by pruritus (itching), inflammation and pain in the left hand "and was entered two days later in the Celia Sanchez local hospital.

The statement MINSAP explained that the patient had in the hospital "sampling for isolation zika" which was sent to the Institute of Tropical Medicine "Pedro Kouri" (IPK) in Havana.

The laboratory IPK, a specialized diagnostic center, research and care of communicable diseases, confirmed on March 2 that the test on the Cuban patient at the time of admission "tested positive for Zika virus," he said The report.

He also noted that currently the nurse diagnosed with Zika virus is "asymptomatic and in good general condition".

The first case of spread of the Zika virus imported was detected on the island in a Venezuelan doctor of 28 who came to the Caribbean country last February 21 to pursue a postgraduate course in gastroenterology and is being held at IPK, as reported Wednesday MINSAP.

For several weeks, Cuba is developing a program of action that includes the mobilization of 9,000 troops of the Armed Forces and 200 police with fumigation and inspections in homes and workplaces to meet the Zika virus, dengue and chikungunya.

Health authorities have explained through local media that the objective of the plan is to fight the mosquito "Aedes aegypti" and "Aedes albopictus" trasmisores agents of these diseases, as both are present in several areas of the island.

President of Cuba, Raul Castro, urged the Feb. 22 Cubans to take "a personal matter" fighting the mosquito that transmits these diseases in a statement entitled "Call to our people," reported in the mainstream media press the island. EFE

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Edited March 4, 2016 by niman