Abstract
During the 1990s, Cuba was struck by a rare epidemic disease. Up to 50,000 people were affected by a pathology compromising primarily the optic nerve but also peripheral nerves and even spinal cord. This is a testimony from a direct witness and participant in the initial study of the epidemics showing that in spite of claims of a “multifactorial” etiology, still in the literature, the root cause of this disease is just result of the deliberate deprivation of the most elementary economic rights by extreme Government control over a population left unable to tend to its elementary survival by itself, in spite of a thorough Government-sponsored, universally celebrated Universal Healthcare System.
Highlights
Quick Response Code: Optic neuritis is not what you would normally expect to see coming out of the blue as an epidemic outbreak
It should not be hard to imagine that any Health Authority would be shocked and awed by the almost abrupt appearance of nearly 400 cases of optic neuritis in a remote, poor, low populated area of a poor Third World country
This was precisely what happened in Cuba in the early nineties, when people suddenly turning blind showed up by the dozens on remote medical posts of southern Pinar del Rio
Summary
The “Cuban Epidemic Neuropathy” of the 1990s: A glimpse from inside a totalitarian disease. Available FREE in open access from: http://www.surgicalneurologyint.com/text.asp?2014/5/1/84/133888
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