CUBA NEWS
August 18, 2004

FROM CUBA Dysentery outbreak among medical graduates 6p4g4f

SANTA CLARA, August 13 (Guillermo Farias Hernndez, Cubanacn Press / cubanet.sergipeconectado.com) - At about six in the morning August 10, a special train arrived at the Santa Clara station with an unusual load: medical sciences graduates from the eastern provinces, all suffering from acute diarrhea.

Municipal health authorities converged at the station, led by director Regla Angulo, along with every available ambulance. The staffs of three hospitals were called in to deal with the unexpected development.

The graduates, doctors, dentists, nurses, and technicians, were on their way to Havana for graduation ceremonies. Instead, many of them were taken to hospitals, to polyclinics, and some even to the local school for social workers.

Police and agents of the Department of State Security cordoned off the station, presumably to help in their investigation for the source of the disease, which was initially attributed to a chicken meal that had been fed to the recent graduates.

The train continued on its way to Havana by 4 p.m.

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