date:Jan 16, 2013
omiting cause dehydration, especially among the elderly.
The illness runs its course within a week, making it relatively easy to track, but at the same time is highly contagious, spreading from hand to mouth, through contaminated food and the water supply.
So far there is no indication it's in the water supply, but we are dumping more chlorine in the system, the Health Ministry official said.
Until 2012, there had been no cholera outbreaks reported in Cuba since well before the 1959 revolutio