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Cuba Confirms Cholera Outbreak in Havana

Cuba's health ministry has confirmed a cholera outbreak in Havana with 51 people infected - the biggest incidence of the disease there in decades.

An official statement said health workers had detected an increase in "watery diarrhoea" in some districts, which has been established as cholera.

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