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Cuba admits 51 cholera cases in Havana; travel warnings from UK and US
Cuba's Public Health Ministry on Tuesday acknowledged 51 new cases of cholera in the capital Havana amid growing concerns about the illness' spread and disappointment in the diplomatic community over the government's lack of transparency. Read full article
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Jan 15th, 2013 - 10:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh great - Canadian tourists are the biggest proportion from a single country at almost a million visits in 2010 (vs 180,000 from UK and 60,000 from US), but NO warning yet on Canadian Travel Advisory website for Cuba: http://travel.gc.ca/destinations/cuba
Jan 16th, 2013 - 12:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0I worry more buying burgers at Tesco.
Jan 16th, 2013 - 03:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9804632/Tesco-beef-burgers-found-to-contain-29-horse-meat.html
@3 MA
Jan 16th, 2013 - 05:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0off-topic and completely irrelevant, Troll.
Now, back to the story.
UVic marionette.
Jan 16th, 2013 - 05:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0According to Canadian Travel Advisory MercoP. is incorrect?
How do you explain that?
Jan 16th, 2013 - 06:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well I was thinking about trotting off to Tesco's later their prices are quite stable
Jan 16th, 2013 - 09:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0I only wish they had a Tesco here. I'd be there now.
Jan 16th, 2013 - 11:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ 3 Marcos Alejandro
Jan 16th, 2013 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Who buys burgers at Tesco?
Horse meat is not poisonous, just culturally unacceptable in some countries. Probably why some worked its way into the meat product that came from Europe.
Jan 16th, 2013 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Horse meat will not kill you but cholera can. I fail to see the relevance to this story.
Some friends of mine were in Havana in November where there was a severe shortage of toilet paper. They were rationed to 10 sheets per day. That can't help.
#5 : I'm a “Uvic” (University of Victoria, British Columbia) marionette? Well, I'm proud to have spent the last part of my working life there teaching geography!
Jan 16th, 2013 - 01:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As for the cholera issue and Canadian travel advisory, apparently Canada DID issue a cholera advisory as a “health advisory” back in July 2012 - which doesn't not appear to be on there now.
However, with CBC news now reporting the magnitude of the current cholera problems, no doubt that it will twig on somebody's mind in Ottawa to post something, somewhere.
“Cuba acknowledges 51 new cases of cholera in Havana”:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/01/15/cuba-cholera-havana-health.html
Cuba's cholera outbreak prompts Canadian health advisory (12 July 2012):
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/01/15/cuba-cholera-havana-health.html
Maybe he is warning us because of where most of Europes horsemeat comes from :) http://en.mercopress.com/2011/05/04/argentina-leads-in-horse-meat-exports-23.880-tons-in-2010
Jan 16th, 2013 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 012 saphira
Jan 17th, 2013 - 04:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not exactly.
“Europe supplied horse meat in burgers
The horse meat in burgers sold by British supermarkets came from contaminated “filler” imported from Holland and Spain”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/9807537/Europe-supplied-horse-meat-in-burgers.html
David Cameron said the retailers were ultimately responsible for the food they sold. “This is a completely unacceptable state of affairs,” he said.
Send the navy Camoron :-)))
9 Gordo1
Gordos salames like you.
11 JohnN
Marionette word was intended for someone else, sorry.
Do you know “Troy”?
Geography teacher in Canada and supporting a British colony in the Americas?
I spent one day in Beautiful Victoria long ago crossing the beautiful American continent.
@13MA
Jan 17th, 2013 - 06:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Marionette word was intended for someone else, sorry.
Do you know “Troy”?
Geography teacher in Canada and supporting a British colony in the Americas?
I spent one day in Beautiful Victoria long ago crossing the beautiful American continent.”
That's ok, “Puppet” !
It's not likely he knew me, either. I studied Geography under Hu Wallis at UBC, not UVic. Sorry.
Mark, being a Geog. Prof. , I'm sure he knows where The Falklands are, in relation to beautiful Victoria, Canada.
Being educated, and living in a country that has freedom of the press and is not influenced by Argentine propaganda, he knows the true history of the Islands and understands your claims to be provocative and false.
BTW, you are obviously an enemy of our Commonwealth of Nations. Don't abuse our hospitality by returning for another visit.
Thanks.
14 Troy Tempest:
Jan 17th, 2013 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That is a fair reflection of my position on the Falkland Islands, and its community's quest for sovereignty and security in the face of ongoing Argentine harassment .
While I might disagree with our Canadian government on other foreign policy goals, I'm pleased that our Foreign Minister Baird has been forthright in supporting Falkland Islands sovereignty and security, especially in the face of Canadian miners who see profit in supporting CFK and her Argentine regime's position
“Canada confirms Falklands self determination despite lobbying from companies operating in Argentina”:
http://en.mercopress.com/2012/08/30/canada-confirms-falklands-self-determination-despite-lobbying-from-companies-operating-in-argentina
“Falklands self determination”
Jan 18th, 2013 - 04:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Someone gave you an answer for that before:
“Quebequois and Inuit are surely enjoying the self-determination of that beacon of freedom that is Canada”
I will add: like the Chagossians?
Hypocrisy anyone?
Malvinas Argentinas
@16 Mark Alexander
Jan 18th, 2013 - 05:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0““Falklands self determination”
Someone gave you an answer for that before”
Mark, I thought this was a thread about Cholera in a struggling economy of Cuba.
What are you on about? Diversion?
Embarrassed for some reason?
It has nothing to do with Canada, except that Canadians are at risk as tourists.
The issue for warning travelers who do use internet to get risk information, is how easy and obvious is this warning?
Jan 18th, 2013 - 02:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0To get to the just-posted Canadian cholera warning requires 3 clicks to drill down to that warning, whereas UK warning is in bold letters near the top of Cuba info homepage.
Similar to Canada's unobtrusive Cuba cholera notice, the US obscures their concern by making viewers click on a further weblink, Recent “USINT Havana Notices for American Citizens”.
UK: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/north-central-america/cuba
Canada's Public Health agency does assign risk levels, and assigns higher priority to protection from cholera (Level 2) than to the just-posted Dengue fever concern (Level 1).
Canada: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/north-central-america/cuba
Public Health Canada warning:
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/north-central-america/cuba
US:
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/north-central-america/cuba
@18JohnN
Jan 18th, 2013 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks for those links, John.
My neighbours are going to Cuba, for the first time, next month.
I will warn them when I speak to them.
This cholera outbreak is combined with a Cuba-wide toilet paper shortage, for a lethal combination.
Going beyond Cuba, its interesting to see how other countries of tourism interest are addressing similar public health issues. For example, on the current WHO dengue map, Argentina appears have a dengue-ridden territory as far south as Buenos Aires region.
Jan 18th, 2013 - 07:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0WHO Dengue Map - click on Dengue box to view:
http://apps.who.int/ithmap/
@20 John
Jan 18th, 2013 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Going beyond Cuba, its interesting to see how other countries of tourism interest are addressing similar public health issues. For example, on the current WHO dengue map, Argentina appears have a dengue-ridden territory as far south as Buenos Aires region. ”
and yet, Argentinian authorities and Argie trolls on this site have repeatedly denied the existence of ANY Dengue, even though their neighbours on the borders have fully mobilised their health authorities to suppress it.
BTW Marcos I don't know why your are so nutty about horse meat in UK, it is sold in every grocery store in Argentina as a cold-cut/salami.
Jan 19th, 2013 - 04:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I didn't know what I was buying once and my cook told me it was horse meat even though it was with the regular salami and wasn't labeled properly. Oh well.
Oh well, light-skinned tourists to Cuba have probably more to fear from sun burn than from the cholera outbreak. With currently -3C in Montréal and 22C in Havana - and prospects of three more months of winter ahead, Canadians will continue to flood to Cuba even if it had a combo of Ebola virus and the Plague.
Jan 19th, 2013 - 06:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Cholera outbreak in Cuba not keeping Canadian travellers at home”:
http://www.globaltoronto.com/cholera+outbreak+in+cuba+not+keeping+canadian+travellers+at+home/6442791633/story.html
Thinking about another dive trip to Cuba in March.
Jan 19th, 2013 - 09:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you travel there?
It's a friendly culture. I met a tourist in Varadero. He had been robbed by three men outside a hotel nightclub. They took his cash, asked which hotel he was from, and gave him back enough for cab fare.
From Victoria, BC, its cheaper to go to México than to Cuba but many friends do enjoy holidays in Cuba. Now retired, one of my hobbies is volunteer election observing and when the first real elections come to Cuba, I'd like to go for that.
Jan 20th, 2013 - 01:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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