{{Cuba’s Public Health Ministry on Tuesday acknowledged 51 new cases of cholera in the capital amid growing concerns about the illness’ spread and disappointment in the diplomatic community over the government’s lack of transparency.}}<\/p>\n
The ministry said nobody had died from the latest outbreak, which began Jan. 6, and stressed that preventive measures already taken had put the disease “on the way to extinction.” <\/p>\n
It said cholera was first detected in the capital’s Cerro neighborhood, and then spread elsewhere. <\/p>\n
No other areas of the capital were mentioned, but there have been unconfirmed reports of cases in the leafy Playa neighborhood that is home to many foreign embassies.<\/p>\n
The island has a well-organized civil defense system capable of rapidly mobilizing government agencies and citizens groups.<\/p>\n
Brigades of workers go door to door, noisily fumigating homes and admonishing residents to eliminate standing water where mosquitos bearing another tropical disease, dengue, could breed.<\/p>\n
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