Regime offers dengue course for 900 USD, while the virus increases in Cuba

SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- Cuban health authorities will teach an international course on the dengue and other arboviruses, while the country faces a critical epidemiological situation.

For participants from other countries, the course, which will run from August 19 to 30, will have a total cost of 900 dollars for foreigners and 1,000 CUP for Cubans, an amount that includes theoretical and practical sessions, according to the INFOMED site.

These sessions aim to “update participants: doctors, virologists, immunologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, entomologists, health administrators, among others interested in the subject, together with professors from prestigious national and international institutions in the aspects most relevant and current information on various diseases transmitted by Aedes aegypti,” it states as its objectives.

“The course will provide a space for updating and discussing the epidemiological situation and advances in knowledge, prevention and control of dengue and other arboviruses with special reference to chikungunya, Zika, yellow fever, Mayaro and Oropouche,” reviewed PAHO.

The topics to be discussed include entomo-virological surveillance, chemical and biological control, insecticide application techniques and sterile insects for pest control. aegyptiwhen there is no fuel or pesticides available on the Island for mass fumigations against the transmitting agents.

The breakdown of subtopics also includes the community in the control of the Aedes aegyptus, intersectorality in the confrontation and prevention of arboviruses, cost/effectiveness in dengue control.

The workshop is sponsored by the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and its Control, the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine, the Cuban Society of Microbiology and Parasitology, the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, and the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization.