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Mirroring the Zika epidemics in Cuba: The view from a European imported diseases clinic
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Dear Editor, the changing epidemiology of Zika virus infection has been described before and in this letter we would like to show how the local epidemiology of Zika in Cuba is reflected in imported cases in returning travellers to Barcelona.
The spread of the 2015 Zika epidemic was mostly reported in South America and the Caribbean. While increasing numbers of cases raised in South-America, Cuba was still free of cases. On 2nd March 2016 the first imported case from Cuba (Artemisa province) was reported. The first autochthonous case was reported on 16th March 2016 in La Habana. Onwards, cases were reported in Camagüey, Cienfuegos, Guantánamo, Havana and Santiago. During 2017 transmission has been reported in municipalities of Arroyo Naranjo and Regla in the province of Havana .
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ALMUEDO RIERA, Alex, et al. Mirroring the Zika epidemics in Cuba: The view from a European imported diseases clinic. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. 2019. ISSN 1477-8939. [consulted: 17 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/136709