A Cuban woman reported that her house in Havana remains invaded by mosquitoes, while several diseases caused by these insects are circulating in the country.
"It is inhumane," said internet user Irina Diéguez Toledo on Facebook after calling it a "hunt" in the "walls of the living room and the kitchen."
The images show dozens of dead mosquitoes and others hanging from the windows.
The blackouts and the lack of insecticides and fumigation campaigns contribute to the presence of these flying insects.
Recently, the Cuban regime acknowledged that despite the increasing incidence of dengue and oropouche fever, both caused by mosquito bites, it did not have the resources to carry out fumigation campaigns.
The National Director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), Francisco Durán, said last July that the country does not have fuel for spraying and that the oropouche virus is now present in all Cuban provinces.
The Oropouche virus is transmitted by a mosquito of the Culex genus, which is present throughout the country and breeds in any body of water, making its control difficult.
The symptoms of the disease include high fever, headaches and joint pain, general malaise, vomiting, and diarrhea, differing from dengue by the duration of the symptoms.
However, Durán stated that there are current limitations regarding fuel and insecticides, which affects the actions to combat mosquitoes.
Actions for vector control and focal disease management are being prioritized in areas where positive cases of Oropouche or dengue have been detected; however, there is no fuel to carry out fumigation, he emphasized.
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