Second cholera outbreak affects 51 in Cuba

Second cholera outbreak affects 51 in Cuba
By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 15:54 EST

new cholera outbreak has sickened 51 people in Havana, Cuba’s second in four months after a 130-year stretch without the disease, the Health Ministry said Tuesday. One man has died, his family said.

The latest outbreak was from the same cholera strain found to have been introduced in Haiti by Nepalese UN peacekeepers, unleashing an epidemic in 2010 that has killed some 7,900 people.

Miriam Rodríguez, who lives in the Havana neighborhood most affected by the outbreak, said her son, Ubaldo Pino, a 46-year-old barber, succumbed to the disease on January 6.

“He died of cholera and that is what is on his death certificate,” she told AFP. Authorities have not officially confirmed the cause of his death.

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