The MSM is finally catching on to Cuba's dengue epidemic.
From the Associated Press:
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) - Cuban authorities have intensified their campaign against dengue fever, sending military planes to fumigate streets, buildings and rooftops in the capital and going door-to-door to spray against mosquitoes potentially carrying the disease.They have remained silent, however, on the number of victims of the disease. Community watch groups are telling Cubans there is an epidemic and the number of people infected is growing.
A full-blown epidemic in Cuba in 1981 left 158 people dead.
"There has been a serious effort across the country ... to avoid the infestation of the mosquito, which is the transmitting agent of the disease," Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque told The Associated Press in New York, declining to provide more details.
The details, however, have come out, thanks to Cuba's independent press.
Just last week, journalist Odelin Alfonso Torna reported that 1,000 children had been admitted to a hospital with symptoms of the disease. (The communists rewarded Alfonso for his resourcefulness by detaining him for 14 hours and warning him to quit working as a journalist.)
And earlier there was a report that as many as 30,000 to 35,000 Cubans had been infected.
Of course, in Cuba, the health care is free, so all is well.
And the acting chief exterminator himself, Raúl Castro, is on the job.
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