Cuba warns population of high presence of mosquitoes that transmit dengue

Cuban health officials warned the population on Thursday about the high rate of penetration of mosquitoes that transmit dengue, zika and chikunguya, and called for action to control it.

“In 2021, the highest number of (mosquito) outbreaks were reported in the last 15 years.” Especially in the provinces with the largest population, such as Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Holguin, Camaguei, Matanzas and Villa Clara, the Ministry of Public Health said in a statement.

The agency noted that the American continent recorded “high rates of infection of Aedes Aegypti and Aedes Albopictus” and that as a result, increased transmission of dengue fever and other viruses such as chikungunya and Zika.

During 2021, 9 Cuban provinces were affected by dengue, but in the midst of a complicated epidemiological situation due to the covid-19 pandemic, “as of September, cases have decreased by 29.3%,” he said.

The country has been exempted from Zika since 2019 and Chikungunya since 2017.

For more than 15 years, health officials have been developing a campaign to control the Aedes mosquito population restricted in the past two years due to containment measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has already been controlled on the Caribbean island.

Authorities assure that the greatest number of outbreaks were detected in water tanks, especially those that are “found in many homes,” and explained the measures in this regard.

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