Diseases

Trash mafias in Cuba? Testimonies point to clans, violence, and an organized business in the landfills

Residents of Camagüey report more than four years with sewage water in the streets

Trash takes over Las Tunas and forces the search for solutions in the private sector

Garbage blocks a street in Holguín and threatens food stalls

Guantánamo reports an increase in Aedes aegypti and points out deficiencies in the detection of fever cases

Díaz-Canel admits the magnitude of the health disaster in Cuba: seven out of ten medications are missing

Rolando Zaldivar: "For all people, including myself, dreams were shattered."

Rolando Zaldívar reappears on the streets of Miami: "He is very physically tired."

Jorge Messi, the father and representative of Argentine star Lionel Messi, has passed away

Trash overflows in Trillo Park in Central Havana, and residents are outraged: “With the stench and the worms, where are we going to end up?”

Nurse sets a chair on fire to kill bedbugs in a hospital in Santiago de Cuba

Cuban mother reports that the lack of water worsens her daughter's illness

The outbreak of cyclosporiasis in the United States worsens: What do we know?

The first deaths from cyclosporiasis are being reported in the United States

Cuban mother claims that a power plant endangers her daughter, who has a serious lung disease

Reports indicate an increase in cases of leprosy in Florida

Florida Department of Health confirms dengue case in Miami-Dade

13-year-old girl urgently needs medication that is not available at the hospital in Camagüey

Investigation into the intrusion of a group of people in the intensive care unit of a pediatric hospital in Havana

Cubadebate states that "cases of hepatitis are not taken lightly," but it omits the water crisis that causes them

"I can't take it anymore": mother of a child with cerebral palsy in Cuba erupts on social media over power outages and lack of water

The United States records its worst year of measles since 1991

Cyclosporiasis outbreak frightens consumers in the U.S.: Restaurants lose customers and lettuce sales plummet

Florida ranks among the five states with the highest number of measles cases in 2026

Díaz-Canel: "Our response to suffocation is the inventiveness, creativity, and joy of the Cuban people."

"If Eusebio Leal were to rise from the dead, he would die again," lament Cubans as the garbage consumes the work of the historian in Old Havana

Guantánamo reports 23 suspected cases of dengue, and two municipalities remain on epidemiological alert

Outbreak of cyclosporiasis spreading in the U.S.: These are the states with new cases

Mother of political prisoners denounces that the Quivicán prison has no water and her sick son is in danger

Bring sick children out of Cuba to receive care abroad without costing a dollar

Black waters, garbage, and neglect: this is how the La Marina neighborhood in Matanzas survives

The collapse of Monte Street in the Cuban capital: the corner of El Cadete now smells of neglect and trash

Cases of cyclosporiasis triple in Miami-Dade in a week

The U.S. makes the first payment in compensations for Havana Syndrome

Concern over the rise in cases of cyclosporiasis in the U.S.: What do the CDC say?

The heartfelt initiative of a child in Texas to buy a generator for a minor with paralysis in Cuba

Solidarity among Cubans raises 45,000 pesos and various aids for a child with cerebral palsy in Cárdenas

Possible source of the cyclospora outbreak affecting Florida and around thirty states in the U.S. identified.

They are seeking help for a Cuban mother and her child with a disability and a life expectancy of one year

“Neither Afghanistan nor Ukraine”: one of the main access roads to Holguín resembles a war zone due to a burning garbage dump

Mother with her sick child denounces the abandonment by institutions: "They suffer from convenient deafness and blindness."

Cyclosporiasis outbreak adds dozens of cases in Florida: What it is, how it spreads, and how to protect yourself

Havana experiences a three-century regression: bags filled with excrement and garbage revive the unsanitary conditions of the colonial era

Garbage and sewage in the streets of Havana threaten the food security of Cubans

Hemodialysis patients in Santiago de Cuba report a crisis due to a lack of essential concentrate for treatment

Cuban mother reports receiving spoiled meat and cheese for her son’s medical diet with cystic fibrosis

Dementia, the disease spreading in Cuba

The Yayabo River, a symbol of Sancti Spíritus, is suffocating under trash and the inaction of authorities

Mother of three sick children asks for help to buy solar panels

More than 300 medications are unavailable: the other side of the pharmaceutical "stability" in Sancti Spíritus

Las Tunas inaugurates a drug observatory while acknowledging a more than 200% increase in consumption in Cuba

The Hill has the key... and also a swamp of waste in the heart of the Cuban capital

Havana normalizes the unhealthy: selling food amidst accumulated trash in the streets

Rivers turned into dumping grounds: waste worsens flooding in the city of Holguín

Another dumping ground ahead: the accumulation of garbage increases in front of the playground in Holguín

Cuban mother with two severely ill children desperately seeks help in Ciego de Ávila

"Almost 10 cars" for hemodialysis patients in Villa Clara

Mother of Ahitana bids farewell to her daughter in Pinar del Río with a heartbreaking message: "I did everything for you."

Camagüey urges the population to boil water due to the crisis with water purification products

Hatibonico River: pollution and trash condemn the most important river of Camagüey to oblivion