From our Annals of Apartheid Tourism Bureau with some assistance from our Bureau of Instant Karma
Talk about instant karma: Apartheid-loving tourists are coming down with Oropouche fever and bringing the virus to Europe. Their numbers keep increasing. That’s what can happen when you choose an impoverished totalitarian hellhole as your vacation destination and all the money you spend sustains a dictatorship. Cuban mosquitoes don’t know how to obey Castro, Inc.’s apartheid rules. European, Canadian, and Cuban blood taste the same to them. And Luxurious resorts restricted to foreigners are the same to them as the crumbling houses and trash filled streets where Cubans live.
Loosely translated from CiberCuba
The number of Oropouche virus cases imported into Europe in recent weeks through travelers from Cuba is increasing, with at least 11 cases detected so far, according to official data from European health authorities.
In its most recent report on disease behavior, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) confirmed two Oropouche cases detected in Germany in individuals who had recently traveled to the island, while the number of diagnosed cases in Italy has risen to four.
Meanwhile, Spain’s Health Ministry’s Coordination Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES) reported this week that five Oropouche virus (OROV) cases have been detected in travelers returning from Cuba since the beginning of the summer, according to a dispatch from the EFE agency.
In mid-July, the ECDC revealed the detection of six cases of the disease in Europe: three in Spain and three in Italy.
The number of cases in Spain confirmed by that health authority remained at three until the weekly report closed on August 2. However, Spanish health authorities updated the number to five, in residents from four different autonomous communities: Galicia, Andalusia, the Basque Country, and Madrid.
The EFE note warns that the number of Oropouche cases imported from Cuba is expected to increase due to the outbreak in several Latin American countries; however, “the risk of transmission is very low” because the mosquito that spreads it, the Culicoides paraensis midge, does not inhabit the country.
In its mid-July report, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control counted three cases of the disease in Italy, in people from the island, a number that has since risen to four.
Italy recorded the first case of Oropouche in Europe, which was reported on June 7, after the virus was identified in a person who had returned from Cuba to the Veneto region on May 26.
The traveler experienced the onset of symptoms, including fever, arthralgia, arthritis, headache, and retro-orbital pain, on the day of arrival and had to be hospitalized for four days.
Meanwhile, on July 29, Germany reported two confirmed cases of the disease. The travelers experienced their first symptoms on June 16 and July 2, respectively, during their stay in Cuba. One person had a fever, myalgia, and headaches, while the other experienced headaches, general discomfort, and arthralgia.
The patients tested positive for specific OROV IgG and IgM tests upon their return to Germany. Authorities noted that there is no known epidemiological link between the two cases, according to the ECDC report.
The health authority has emphasized that there is no association between the Oropouche cases detected in these three European countries, except that all had been in Cuba. A single case, recorded in Italy, came from Brazil.
At the end of July, the Cuban Ministry of Public Health reported that the virus had spread to all provinces since it was first identified in the country last May.
The presence of this arbovirosis, along with dengue, has worsened the national epidemiological situation and keeps citizens on alert amid the health crisis in Cuba, marked by a shortage of medicines and supplies, a lack of medical personnel, and a lack of resources to start fumigation campaigns to stop the spread of mosquitoes that transmit both diseases.
In the last week of July, Brazil’s Ministry of Health reported the first deaths in the world from the Oropouche virus.
On August 1, the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) issued an epidemiological alert in the Americas region and urged member states to strengthen surveillance and implement laboratory diagnosis for the identification and characterization of Oropouche cases, EFE reported.
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I’m sorry, but foreigners who vacation in a seriously dysfunctional shithole like Cuba when they have MANY far better options are too stupid for words, and certainly too stupid for sympathy of any kind.