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U.S.A: Congressman Questions Response to Health Incidents in Cuba
Washington, Sep 7 (Prensa Latina) Congressman Eliot Engel criticized the delay in involving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the investigation of symptoms reported by U.S. diplomats in Cuba, a statement said today.
The statement issued Friday reflects the intervention of the Democratic legislator for New York at a hearing held Thursday at the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs of the House of Representatives.
In that space, the congressman recalled that last December he and the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Lower House, Republican Ed Royce, sent a letter to the CDC urging them to assume a leadership role in the investigation.
According to the legislator, he is pleased that the CDC is finally involved, 'but I am worried, and frankly bewildered, that they have arrived so late.
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