Re: Dengue in Cubain 2006 even though Castro claimed the disease was eradicated in 2002


"PL" <pl.nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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[snipping portions of PL's posting already debunked here, or too lame to
bother with]

You will not find a single medical expert who will say otherwise. (snip)

False.
From the same message:

"People emigrating from Cuba or visiting Cuba, including international
health representatives, have reported that it is in line with Cuban
Government
policy to report mild cases of dengue as "influenza". Cuban physicians
have confirmed allegations that some disease reporting in Cuba is
politically influenced (e.g., if dengue were declared wiped out, then
physicians could report the disease only as influenza-like symptoms)."
See: www.promedmail.org Archive Number 19970627.1390

[snip]

The next sentence, which Mr. Lobbyist-Cyberstalker snipped for obvious
reasons:

"However, lack of reporting may simply be an understaffing issue."

No dark conspiracy here.

Going through the rest of the thread at Pro-Med Mail, it appears that the
official stats were ultimately accepted by the group. It was also generally
conceded that numbers from "dissident" sources were indeed wildy inflated.
The same commentator as above later conceded, "Given the low reported
case:fatality rate in the recent experience, it seems as though the Cubans
are still using these techniques [learned in the 1981 outbreak] and that
they are effective." Clearly, he had some confidence in Cuban methods and
reporting at this point.

At any rate, that was 1997. In 1998 the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease
Control published a very favourable article, in its peer-reviewed journal,
by Cuban sources, on Cuba's exemplary handling of outbreak. And it remains
on their website to this day without a single retraction. The same year,
Fidel recieved the Health for All Medal from the UN's World Health
Organization for Cuba's advances in health care. Years later, even your
fellow ultra-conservatives at the Washington-based World Bank were forced to
concede what a "great job" was doing in health care.

Dan
Visit my CUBA: Issues & Answers website at
http://www.netcom.ca/~dchris/CubaFAQ.html



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