Cuba reports new imported case of Zika
Xinhua, April 22, 2016 Adjust font size:
A Cuban woman arriving from Guyana has been diagnosed as the 10th case of imported zika virus on the island, the Cuban Health Ministry announced Friday.
The patient, a 46-year old Havana resident, had mild fever and skin rash on April 18 after traveling to the South American nation.
She was sent to the Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri in the capital Havana on April 20, where a real-time polymerase chain reaction blood test confirmed her positive for Zika.
At present, the patient remains hospitalized with fever reduced but the rash and joint pains remain.
To date Cuba has reported other nine cases of imported Zika, with patients in most cases arriving from Venezuela, and one case of native virus.
The Cuban government has launched a massive sanitary campaign against the mosquito Aedes Aegypti that transmits Zika and other viruses including dengue. Endi