Global & Disaster Medicine

Cuban officials announced Tuesday night that they have detected the first case of the Zika virus transmitted inside the country

March 16th, 2016

Med-Xpres

 

 

**  a 21-year-old Havana woman who had not traveled outside Cuba was diagnosed with the virus after suffering headaches, fatigue and other symptoms.

**  Cuba has thrown more than 9,000 soldiers, police and university students into an effort to fumigate for mosquitoes, wipe out the standing water where they breed and prevent a Zika epidemic.

 

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