Havana/The United States Embassy in Havana issued a health alert for anyone who wants to travel to Cuba due to the Chikungunya outbreak that records the entire island. The risk is determined at level 2, which requires taking “additional precautions”.
In its statement, disseminated in English and Spanish, the diplomatic headquarters remember that this virus is transmitted by mosquitoes and that the symptoms, mainly fever and pain in the joints, appear between three and seven days after the bite.
Other symptoms, they indicate, can be headache or skin rashes. “Most people recover in a week; however, some may suffer intense joint pain for months or years after acute disease,” they warn. Similarly, they remember that there is no specific treatment for Chikungunya and, although death from this disease is rare, newborns infected at the time of childbirth are those that are at risk of suffering a more serious disease. Therefore, they ask the pregnant women to “reconsider” travel to the island.
Matanzas media added another risk that Washington’s embassy does not mention: dengue
In addition to babies, those over 65 and who suffer from diabetes or some heart disease are also risk.
USA publishes this alert days after the Matanzas press He did the same For its territory, for “the high incidence of Chikungunya.” The media of that province added to that risk another other than the Washington Embassy does not mention: Dengue. Both virosis, caused by genre mosquitoes Aedes aegypti.
Then, Andrés Lamas Acevedo, director of the Provincial Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in Matanzas denied that there was A mysterious disease In Cárdenas, after weeks of reports from communities decimated by a condition that the sick described as “very weakening” and that “causes inflammation in the joints, high fever and general discomfort.”
The official detailed that the registered viruses were dengue (serotypes 3 and 4), Chikungunya and, to a lesser extent, oropouche. However, the lack of reagents in crowded polyclinics makes many patients pass the disease without knowing what they have for sure. That Washington focuses on Chikungunya sheds light.
