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FROM
CUBA
New dengue fever wave strikes Havana
HAVANA, Cuba - July 20 (José Antonio
Fornaris, Cuba-Verdad / www.cubanet.org)
- More than 600 new cases of dengue fever
have been recorded in the Havana municipalities
of El Cerro, Centro Habana, and Arroyo Naranjo,
said employees of the Public Health department
who wished to remain anonymous.
Authorities have been meeting with physicians
and nurses to appraise them of the situation.
They have also ordered a clean up campaign
in Old Havana, presumably to eliminate breeding
areas for the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the
vector for the disease.
The last outbreak of dengue in the Cuban
capital was January 2002. At that time,
a clean up campaign picked up more than
a million square meters of debris and trash
that had accumulated in city streets.
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