Zika Confirmed Cuba ex-Brazil

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An army truck spraying to kill mosquitoes in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba. Authorities are spraying in an attempt to prevent the spread of Zika, chikungunya and dengue. (AP)

Cuba confirms the fifth imported case of the Zika virus

 

Saturday, March 19, 2016 - 4:00 pm 
 

HAVANA, Cuba (EFE) .- Cuba today confirmed the fifth imported case of Zika virus in a patient 27-year-old who arrived in the island last March 9 from Brazil, where he traveled for personal reasons

The Ministry of Health Public (MINSAP) said in a statement that the patient is "maintained entered in good general condition" without specifying their nationality.

According to the note, the young He started having fever on March 11 and day 13 went to the Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri (IPK) in Havana, where he was detected "rash" (rash) in the neck, the next day spread to the chest and arms.

"At the same time, all epidemiological surveillance and vector control are made , " says MINSAP. 
Given these symptoms, which bind and fatiguepain lumbar, it takes the sample to detect the virus, confirmed by IPK on 17 March.

With this, already have six cases zika in Cuba, five of them imported and one native, diagnosed in a 21-year Havana no history of foreign travel.

The rest of those affected are three Cuban professionals (a computer engineer, a nurse and a technician) who returned to the island from Venezuela and a natural doctor that South American country traveled to Cuba to pursue a graduate degree.

In recent weeks, Cuba has deployed an action plan to tackle the virus zika, dengue and chikungunya including the mobilization of 9,000 troops of the Armed Forces and 200 police to fight the mosquito that transmits these diseases by spraying in homes and workplaces.

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