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Dysentery outbreak among medical graduates
SANTA CLARA, August 13 (Guillermo Fariñas
Hernández, Cubanacán Press
/ www.cubanet.org) - At about six in the
morning August 10, a special train arrived
at the Santa Clara station with an unusual
load: medical sciences graduates from the
eastern provinces, all suffering from acute
diarrhea.
Municipal health authorities converged
at the station, led by director Regla Angulo,
along with every available ambulance. The
staffs of three hospitals were called in
to deal with the unexpected development.
The graduates, doctors, dentists, nurses,
and technicians, were on their way to Havana
for graduation ceremonies. Instead, many
of them were taken to hospitals, to polyclinics,
and some even to the local school for social
workers.
Police and agents of the Department of
State Security cordoned off the station,
presumably to help in their investigation
for the source of the disease, which was
initially attributed to a chicken meal that
had been fed to the recent graduates.
The train continued on its way to Havana
by 4 p.m.
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