To date, three imported cases of the Zika virus had been detected in Cuba. According to a note from the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap), the latest case is that of a Cuban collaborator aged 43, from the municipality of Florida, in Camagüey province, who was working as a laboratory technician in Merida, Venezuela, and arrived in the country on March 1, 2016.
That same day he began to experience a headache and the following day a rash appeared on his chest. On March 2, he was admitted to the Amalia Simoni Hospital in the city of Camagüey, where a test for the Zika virus was taken and sent to the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK).
From the very beginning, all epidemiological and vector control measures established for such cases were undertaken.
On March 7, the IPK laboratory confirmed that the Real-Time PCR test conducted on admittance to hospital had proven positive for the Zika virus.
The patient is showing signs of good health, with a discreet rash.