Cuba’s epidemiology director offered an update on the spread of Dengue Fever and Oropouche virus in Cuba, currently affecting most of the national territory.

The 11th International Conference on Ticks and Tick-borne Pathogens opened its doors in this city, as announced by ScD Mario Pablo Estrada Garcia, chair of the Scientific Committee of the event, sponsored by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) and deemed one of the most important on this field in the world.

Cuban professionals are participating in a course on Metrology for Secondary Dosimetric Calibration Laboratories in the Latin American Region, which concludes today in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Cuba will join the list of 35 countries in the American region that have pneumococcal vaccines in their immunization schedules, starting next September 9, with the administration of Pneumosil 10 valente to two-month-old infants throughout the national territory.

Cuba has not reported any serious Oropouche Fever cases or deaths since the virus was detected here in May. Some 506 cases were detected, the lowest figure in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Solidarity organizations in the USA, Europe and Canada sent Cuba 150 pacemakers out of a first donation batch of such devices which are vital for life but whose purchase by Cuba is hindered by the US blockade.

The World Health Organization (WHO) regional director Hans Kluge said on Tuesday during a press conference that the Mpox virus cannot compare to COVID-19 because sanitary authorities already count on enough expertise to control its spread.

The epidemiological situation in Cuba is complex today, due to the co-circulation of several viruses such as influenza, dengue and oropouche, detected for the first time in the country since May and currently spreading in the 15 provinces, informed Dr. Francisco Duran, national director of Hygiene and Epidemiology, to the Cuban News Agency.

The 18th International Course on Dengue and other Arboviruses began this Monday at the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK) with the purpose of training health personnel on the prevention and control of communicable diseases.

The Regulatory Authority of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices of the Republic of Cuba (Cecmed) and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control of Nigeria (NAFDAC) signed in that West African country a memorandum of understanding with the aim of promoting a broader development in the field of Health.

The Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC) mourned the death of Mayra Paulina Hernandez Sanchez, PhD in physical sciences and tenured researcher.

For the treatment of respiratory diseases, the Juan Manuel Marquez Pediatric Hospital in Havana is using the natural medicine Grintus, produced and donated by the Italian natural pharmaceutical company Aboca, in alliance with the local development project Flora, la botica de la abuela (Grandma's Apothecary).

The Biocubafarma Business Group received a donation of 10 million euros from the government of the Republic of India, destined for the purchase of active pharmaceutical ingredients for the production of oral and injectable antibiotics for hospital and community use.

Over 450 new graduates from Nursing and Health Technologies got their diplomas at Havana’s Medical School as a necessary force to strengthen the island’s free and universal public health system.