MADRID, Spain.- Cuban health authorities predicted an increase in dengue cases for the months of October and November on the island.
“It is a difficult moment, and we are heading towards the most complex of the disease, since the cycle shows its greatest peaks from the end of October and the beginning of November, because there is a wave of the vector and of those sick with dengue,” Clarilda specified. Peña García, deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) in the Round table this Thursday.
There is currently a presence of dengue transmission in 14 provinces, 41 municipalities, and 58 health areas of the country, the specialists reported, who also insisted that this situation is not particular to Cuba, but rather occurs throughout the Americas. Latin.
The provinces with the highest incidence rates are Santiago de Cuba, Havana, Las Tunas, Guantánamo, Camagüey, Matanzas and the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud.
Peña García stressed that the vector lives in homes and 70% of the outbreaks are found in commonly used deposits, such as pots for plants, water tanks and spiritual vessels.
For this reason, he insisted on maintaining cleanliness in the homes and that families make sure that the workers in charge of controlling and fumigating the houses carry it out rigorously.
For her part, María Guadalupe Guzmán Tirado, director of the Research, Diagnosis and Reference Center of the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK), during the transmission of the official program, pointed out that dengue disease is caused by four different serotypes, which currently circulating in the country.
“According to diagnosis and laboratory surveillance, dengue three was identified in more than 60% of the samples and is showing severity and deaths, followed by dengue two, something similar to what is happening in the Americas region. “, accurate.
This Thursday, the death of Yumila González González, 43 years old and a resident of Santiago de Cuba, was revealed.
According to family and close friends, González had been presenting the so-called warning signs of the virus for several days: high and persistent fever, abdominal pain, dizziness, vomiting and diarrhea, blood loss in the form of hemorrhage associated with a decrease in platelets.
“We took her to the La Maya polyclinic on Sunday and Monday morning because she had dengue fever, but they sent her home again without doing anything to her,” a Yumila neighbor told CubaNet.
Recently numerous users on social networks lamented the deathdue to dengue, by Matanzas doctors Yeliezer González (gynecologist) and Liana Delgado (epidemiologist).
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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