MADRID, Spain.- The dengue health crisis has worsened in Sancti Spíritus due “to the low levels of environmental sanitation and the high number of dumping pits and pending evacuation of their residuals,” according to the official newspaper Escambray.
According to information from the local media, these are the main causes of the “worrying incidence” of dengue in that province.
On October 14, the rate of positive cases was 91 per 100,000 inhabitants, with the highest rates in the municipalities of Taguasco, Cabaiguán, Fomento and Sancti Spíritus, according to a report presented by the Provincial Health Directorate.
The document also highlights the lack of fumigators and “the non-compliance of some organizations both in the support with workers and with means of transportation.”
There are 52 blocks in transmission for a total of 5,430 homes or premises, and a total of 785 outbreaks at the province level.
Health authorities called for increased sanitation actions in the neighborhoods, which include the elimination of wastewater dumping on public roads, cleaning and sanitation with the consequent elimination of reservoirs, favorable for the Aedes aegypi mosquito that transmits the disease.
At the end of last September, the regime’s Minister of Public Health, José Ángel Portal, reported that there was transmission of the virus in the 15 provinces of the country, as well as in the Isla de la Juventud Special Municipality.
At the beginning of September, the Cuban health authorities predicted an increase of dengue cases for the months of October and November.
In July of this year, José Ángel Portal Miranda acknowledged that the Island was going through a “complex” epidemiological scenario; as well as he specified that the record of reproduction points of the dengue mosquito of the last 15 years had been broken.
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