The municipalities with the highest viral incidence are Santa Clara, Cifuentes, Encrucijada, Manicaragua, Placetas and Santo Domingo.
SANTA CLARA, Cuba. – The arboviruses that cause dengue, Oropuche fever and chikungunya are circulating in Villa Clara with high levels of infestation in seven municipalities, as reported this Tuesday by the provincial newspaper, Vanguard. However, residents of the same towns had warned on social networks, for several weeks, of the obvious rebound in these diseases in their territories.
The municipalities with the highest viral incidence are Saint ClareCifuentes, Encrucijada, Manicaragua, Placetas and Santo Domingo. Remedios was also identified among the areas with a high incidence of chicunguña. Precisely, rural areas are the most affected with prolonged blackouts, which are added to the few options for transfer to hospital centers in cases of complications.
As he told Vanguard the director of Hygiene and Epidemiology of Villa Clara, Neil Reyes Miranda, there is an increased risk of transmission and of “more intense symptoms” occurring because several of these viruses can coexist in the same individual, in addition to serotypes three and four of dengue that have remained circulating in most municipalities throughout the year.
“For example, in a home, one member of the family unit may be suffering from dengue, and another from chicunguña, given the increase in infestation,” he noted.
On October 9, Reyes Miranda he told the press that “14 serious cases in total” had been reported in the province, but “no deaths.”
Residents in critical municipalities like Santo Domingo they have complained In the last week on social networks of the high incidence of arboviruses in the midst of a context of persistent blackouts and a shortage of medications to treat fever and intense muscle pain caused by the three rising diseases. Currently, a blister of paracetamol – the drug recommended to relieve the symptoms of these arboviruses – is sold on the informal market for more than 300 pesos each.
Several Internet users describe high feverish states, weakness, headaches, swelling in the body, swollen glands and motor difficulties. “The environment has become hell: swarms of mosquitoes at night and clouds of gnats during the day, which make a mockery of any protection,” described a woman from Santo Domingo identified as Gloria Muñoz. “The people survive without water and electricity most of the time, watching food rot in silent refrigerators,” he added.
Other Villa Clara residents reported at the bottom of the publication Vanguard the presence of leaks in the streets and ravines that flood with the frequent rains of this time of year and that are potential sources for mosquitoes Aedes Aegypti.
