Cuba: Cholera spreads to Santiago de Cuba, Guantanamo and Holguin provinces

The cholera epidemic ravaging Cuba since last June has been extended to the provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Guantanamo and Holguin, with dozens of people hospitalized and some municipalities in critical condition, reports from the island independent news agency Press Talk .

According to a report by the agency’s director, Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez, sources in the public health sector and residents of the eastern confirmed the proliferation of the epidemic, noting that Guantanamo province could be declared in quarantine. Read Article