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Cholera outbreak over, says Cuba
Published on August 31, 2012 Email To Friend    Print Version

By Caribbean News Now contributor

HAVANA, Cuba -- The Cuban government said that the cholera outbreak that erupted in June, killing three and infecting 417, is over, the Granma daily newspaper reported this week.

"Ten days have passed since the latest confirmed case, whereby the Public Health Ministry says that this outbreak is over," the newspaper said of the epidemic that originated in Manzanillo, a city of 130,500 residents located some 560 miles east of Havana.

Authorities also said that there were cases "associated" with the outbreak in other municipalities in surrounding Granma province and in the neighbouring provinces of Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo and even in Havana.

"All these later events, characterized as isolated cases, occurred through people who traveled from Manzanillo and were identified by an effective system of epidemiological monitoring and treated with timely measures," the ministry said.

Of the 417 registered cholera cases, the majority were adults, the report added.

Following the outbreak, the government decided as a precaution to suspend the traditional summer Carnivals in Manzanillo and Bayamo, another city in Granma province.

In addition, the Venezuelan government sent to the island 20 military doctors to provide support.
 
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