October 03, 2006
Dengue Epidemic in Cuba
It is quite frustrating to read any report from any source on Cuba and you always get the "but they have free universal healthcare" plug. It's like it's compulsory for each article to mention that "fact." Of course, those of us who actually know a thing or two about Cuba and it's lauded "health care" know better. Imagine if here in the States, when you are taken to the hospital, theyd expect you to bring your own medications, your own bedsheets, your own food, your own syringes, IV bottles, etc...
Right now, as we have been reporting here and elsewhere, there is a Dengue fever epidemic in Cuba. You wont find much written about it in the MSM, especially from those members who happen to have news bureaus in Havana - a Dengue fever scare might drive away tourists, dont ya know, and thus be detrimental to the government which in turn may quite possibly oust said bureau from the island.
The Real Cuba has more on the Dengue fever epidemic, including the following video which is quite telling of how extreme this epidemic that you arent reading about in the MSM may be:
For more on the Dengue fever epidemic, you can check out El Cafe Cubano, El Confeti, Uncommon Sense, Blog for Cuba and Medicina Cubana.
Oh, and here's a quick Google News search with "dengue fever cuba" as the parameters. Notice the absence of any reports from Reuters, CNN, The New York Times, The Miami Herald and all the rest of those bastions of journalistic ethics.
Posted by Val Prieto at October 3, 2006 08:06 AM
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Totalitarians love the news media setting up bureaus in their countries. It's the only way to shut up a free press.
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at October 3, 2006 10:00 AM
The video almost seems comical, if it were not for the reallity of it all. The question that I keep asking is, what the hell is the actual fumigant. I did a little research and most the stuff used here in the US is a suspected carcinogen, can you imagine what they may be using down there, and no one can question it.
Posted by: Orlando at October 3, 2006 10:29 AM
YOUTUBE RULES Jajaja Nice Clip....
Posted by: Alex at October 3, 2006 01:04 PM
I just remembered a post I published here back in August of last year which talks about the dengue epidemic and other diseases spreading in Cuba.
Posted by: Robert at October 3, 2006 07:54 PM
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