EPIDEMIC OF GASTROENTERITIS IN CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP65B00383R000400090003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 18, 1963
• Content Type: MEMO

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repartrd that outbreaks 0 a,t oast p i des a
Troporttons occurred tbtsu; s4 ,: n
t *:*- ! . ~. oo~ y
months of 1963. Most of the reports eft fs$tl:tbat tb
tapering off afterward.. children in psrtienlar sere said
to have been. seriously 'bit by,- the dissasa? andtsny hasp sdly
s ac
died. the Castro regime _sever .bps a4IL?tted -.t at
summer event to some h.agtb# tom ttaPp* to . rsf~te rujori of
an epidesic, attributin such ss -ottl! `ts ~"4o t r- w~ R..4
a ~,_ .~.
revolutionaries.'' _.. ...
The refugee reports appear .to be largely trni. tango
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the`. lart'oubar
cc unrelated sources reporting on dstsrioritio pubi t
health in Cuba and the-internal consistency an plaUIibi
QE' their reports gives ;thss'drsdibi1ity i~o stistis
available, but the refuge* re arts i dt fists,. at was
severe. A Cubs 11 who bad fled to this
25X1 country from a town rovinc~5X1
reported in late July that laboratory tests a sown 79300
persons in the town were afflicted with gastroenteritis.
There are several uad*rlyiAg resrana. !4' tbs. inarasa
in the -idoidenee of ooamuniCcabls diseases in Cubi, -+ ai
Includes (a) the movement of laarge u6 b t# t ,tb0 -POP !
from one part of the country to' another with .Little regard
for adequate housing, pure drinking water, orproper iewage
and garbage disposal facilitiest (b) the food shortage, which
leads Cubans to eat whatever and wherever, they cant, and (c)
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the malfunction or inadequacy of the regial
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Fart reports since last :$spt.ob r dys 4tOsts ,
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sastroant.ritis. It. pr sussbly "=is ~a londar `a iar1ous
probii~t. The abssnca ' Of rrports" On 'tbs sub sa , could:.
be related to the drrstisally rs`diticwd fiow0t u a>4
refuges into this country pied thst, tia.O, -bovairsr.
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