The cases of the virus of the EITHERropouchewhich is transmitted through the bite of a mosquito, has spread to all 15 provinces of Cubareported this Wednesday the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) on state television.
The Deputy Minister of Public Health, Carilda Peña, pointed out that for the first time the circulation of two strains has been detected in the country during the summer season. arbovirus (transmitted by mosquitoes): he dengue and the Oropouche.
He also indicated that both present a evolution very similar in patients who go to health services and, in the case of Oropouchenoted that very little is known about the aftermath that you can leave.
The first cases of the virus of Oropouche were confirmed at the end of last year May by the Minsap in two municipalities from the eastern province of Santiago of Cubabut the number of registered cases has not yet been specified.
A month later, the authorities island health authorities activated the system sanitary in the face of increasing cases of denguewhose transmitting agent is the mosquito aedes aegypti, and Oropouche which arrives via the mosquito of the culicidae species, although also from the culicoides, popularly known in Cuba like a gnat.
Oropouche
- So he Oropouche had been detected in 23 municipalitiesbut in early July the director of Epidemiology of Minsap, Francisco Durán, said that it was already circulating in 39 municipalities from 12 provinces and that the only territories without confirmed cases were Havana, Pinar del Río (west) and Las Tunas (east), in addition to the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud (southwest).
Durán stated that until that moment all the identified cases had evolved in a “favorable” with an improvement of the symptoms between the third and fourth day of the illness.
So far this year, the fever of Oropouche It has already been detected in Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and Brazil. So far, according to the Pan American Health Organization, no serious or critical cases or deaths have been reported, although the Brazilian Ministry of Health reported two deaths related to this virus on July 25. virus.
