• Submitted by: Juana
• Havana
• Health and Medicine
• 06 / 22 / 2016

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Cuban health authorities announced that with the most recent detection of four new cases of Zika the number of people infected with that diseased climbed to 21 thus far.
The latest cases were imported from Guyana, after the four citizens traveled to that country on personal reasons during seven days.
Once the symptoms showed the persons were hospitalized in their provinces, where they were taken blood samples to be analyzed at Havana´s Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Hospital, which confirmed that all cases were positive for Zika virus on June 17.
All four patients are still in hospital in good general conditions and favorable progress, the report reads and alerts the people to take all personal protection measures while traveling abroad to prevent the infection with the disease and its possible complications.