English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 11 August 2022 — Early Thursday morning, the inhabitants of Nuevo Vedado in Havana woke up startled by the roar of what seemed to be a small plane, flying over the streets of the city. However, when they went out to their balconies, they noticed that the noise didn’t come … Continue reading “Trying to Stop Dengue Fever with an Inadequate Fumigation Campaign”
14ymedio, Havana, 10 May 2022 — Years ago, before the economic crisis gripped the island, fumigation in Havana to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito was done house by house, with prior notice, on a certain day in the summer. Those days will not return. Now, the fight against the insect responsible for the transmission of … Continue reading “Massive fumigation in Some Havana Neighborhoods to Fight Dengue Fever”
14ymedio, Havana, 29 May 2023 – – The rainy season is just beginning and dengue threatens again. In Santiago de Cuba, the contagion figures are already worrying, as an article published this Saturday in Sierra Maestra warns. “In recent days the number of medical attentions for non-specific febrile syndrome has increased, as well as reactive … Continue reading “Dengue Cases in Santiago de Cuba Reach Disturbing Levels, Especially in Palma Soriano”
14ymedio, Havana, 16 February 2023 — BioCubaFarma hopes that this year they will finally have the first vaccination candidate against dengue, after almost a decade of research, Eduardo Martínez Díaz, president of the state pharmaceutical group, told the official press on Thursday. In 2013, Cuba began the first studies to develop a vaccine against the … Continue reading “BioCubaFarma Announces a Dengue Vaccine for 2023, Already in Use Since 2015 in Other Countries”
14ymedio, Havana, 10 November 10, 2022 — With 578 cases of dengue fever identified in the last week, the situation in Ciego de Ávila remains the most critical on the Island. Local statistics, offered in a fragmentary way by authorities, are the only indicator available to gauge the magnitude of the disease in Cuba, a … Continue reading “Cuba Doesn’t Report Data for Dengue Fever Cases but Ciego de Avila Does: 578 in One Week”
EFE (via 14ymedio), Lucy Lorena Libreros, 27 August 2022 — America continues to fight a hard battle to counteract the advance of dengue fever in the region. In addition to measures such as the elimination of mosquito breeding sites and fumigation, there is now an unusual technique: using drones to release communities of mosquitoes ’vaccinated’ with … Continue reading “Releasing Mosquitoes with Drones, the Hope for Fighting Dengue in America”
14ymedio, Havana, 20 July 2022 — The spread of dengue fever in Cuba in recent weeks has forced the Government to approve a reinforcement plan against the disease. According to official figures, provided by the Ministry of Public Health, if the incidence rate in April was 12.2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, in June it reached … Continue reading “Concern Among Doctors About the Increase in Severe Cases of Dengue Fever in Cuba”
14ymedio, Havana, 15 July 2022 — Problems are accumulating for the Cuban authorities, and not even the old jewel in the crown can give joy. The latest worry has been the deaths from dengue hemorrhagic fever of a girl under the age of seven in Cienfuegos and a pregnant doctor. In addition, another minor died … Continue reading “Health Challenges are Multiplying in Cuba, with Dengue Fever and a Covid Variant”
14ymedio, Havana, 7 July 2022 — Heat, rain and lack of fumigation are the perfect combination for the Aedes aegypti mosquito to do its thing. That scenario, positive for the main vector that transmits dengue fever in Cuba, seems to be happening this summer on the island where the crisis and the climate have come … Continue reading “Cuba Breaks Record of Dengue Fever Outbreaks and the Government Describes the Scenario as ‘Complex’”
14ymedio, Santiago de Cuba, 28 December 2020 — Despite the arrival of lower temperatures and a decrease in rainfall, Santiago de Cuba has reported an increase in dengue fever in recent months, caused by the presence of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the transmitting agent of the disease. Dengue fever, together with the increase in those … Continue reading “Santiago de Cuba is Worried About Dengue Fever But the Official Press is Silent”
14ymedio, Havana, April 2, 2020 — “I began feeling very bad, weak, and when I saw that I was getting a rash, I knew it was dengue,” says Manuel, 46, from Camagüey. Dengue continues unabated, but now it competes with the propagation of the coronavirus, which has priority. Manuel lives in Reparto Garrido, where, in … Continue reading “Dengue and Coronavirus, a Double Battle”
Fernando Damaso, 22 October 2019 — By the end of Cuba’s colonial period, the country was suffering from a high mortality rate. Malaria, smallpox, childhood tetanus, typhoid, yellow fever and other diseases were decimating the population. An interventionist government in the United States first assigned General Brooke, then General Wood, the task of quickly improving … Continue reading “Our Annual Summer Dengue / Fernando Damaso”
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14ymedio, Miriam Celaya, West Palm Beach | 4 October 2019 — Although health authorities have never declared it a national epidemic, it is no secret to anyone that dengue fever has not only become endemic throughout the Island — with recurrent outbreaks that tend to get worse every summer — but that statistical data on those infected … Continue reading “With Dengue Fever and, In Addition, Beaten”
14ymedio, Conde Zika Dengue, Miami, September 22nd, 2019 — The media continue their fable about what have been called “sonic” or “acoustic” attacks. This time with the version of a group of Canadian scientists who apparently have discovered an efficiently operating secret team of exterminators working for the Cuban intelligence, employed in the area where … Continue reading “Canadian and American Diplomats Wiped Out by Secret Mosquito Fumigation Brigade”
