Publication date: Sep 23, 2025
The chikungunya virus is aggressively spreading across Matanzas, leaving behind a trail of fever, unbearable pain, and fear in its wake. “Children, the elderly, workers, and students are bedridden with severe bone and muscle pain, weakness, and high fever. Patients crowd homes and hospitals, while power outages and piled-up trash make mosquito control impossible. Calzadilla even urged for humanitarian aid: “It’s people’s lives at stake, stop playing gods. she wrote, highlighting the lack of clear information and access to medication for the public. Initially surfacing in July as an isolated outbreak in the Perico municipality, the situation has escalated to a province-wide concern. In July, the Pedro Kour Institute (IPK) confirmed the presence of chikungunya in Perico.
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Fever | Chikungunya |
| Healthcare | Fever |
| Insecticides | High |
| July | Isolated |
| Surfacing | July |
| Matanzas | |
| Mosquito | |
| Municipality | |
| Outbreak | |
| Pain | |
| Perico | |
| Severe | |
| Situation | |
| Symptoms | |
| Virus |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | Amelia |
| disease | MESH | emergency |
| disease | MESH | access to medication |
| disease | MESH | causes |
| disease | MESH | dengue |
| disease | IDO | quality |
| disease | MESH | joint pain |