The Ministry of Health purchased 300 000 rapid tests to detect human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The estimated time between blood collection and the result is only 20 minutes. The plan is to distribute state portfolio progressively nationwide.
The test is free and confidential. Shall be made after the patient’s consent. “First, you attend a counseling, where you explain what HIV is and what implications if the test is positive or negative. Post-test counseling will be a second. In the case of positive patient be evaluated and appropriate treatment, “said Dr. Roberto Yanez, responsible for managing drug supplies and inputs VIH-SIDA/ITS Program of the Ministry of Health. Read Article
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The Human Development Index 2011 (HDI), the United Nations Program for Development, was published last Wednesday. This is a report involving 187 countries worldwide.The study places Ecuador in the high category, occupying the place 83. Research is conducted for 21 years and combines economic prosperity with education levels and life expectancy of the population. Read […]
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A torrent of gray, toxic water spews from a drainage tunnel and surges along the ravine, tumbling along garbage that has fallen from the Guatemalan capital’s main landfill 1,000 feet (300 meters) above. Despite the foul odors, the danger of unstable piles of garbage collapsing and the chance for heavy rain to suddenly raise the […]
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Miryam Arabian recalled that after the tragedy in Hermosillo entire care network was revised Starting tomorrow, 41 new child care centers operate in the state to strengthen the network of care endorsed by the Ministry of Social Development (Sedesol) in Puebla serving a population of 12 000 children from 6 months to five years of […]
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The Ministry of Health of Paraguay identified nine high-risk areas for the occurrence of severe dengue cases and called for the systematic adoption of measures for promotion, prevention and control. In a report released today indicates that the institution Central, Concepción, Amambay, Alto Parana, Cordillera, Paraguarí, President Hayes, Boqueron and Assumption are the highest risk […]
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Seven suspected of having contracted the deadly disease have been recorded in Usulutan Jiquilisco Area specifically, one of the areas flooded after Tropical Depression 12E. The pollution of the waters collapsed latrines and bacteria generated by dead animals, among them the leptospira and killed a person. Enhances health alert to potential new cases. Read Article
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Six possible cases of yellow fever were reported in the week between February and October 8, 2011, according to the Epidemiological Bulletin of the Ministry of Health. This disease, which had been controlled in the decades of 70 and 90, has rebounded since 2000, according to tallies submitted by the Network of Scientific Medical Societies […]
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A 1539 totals the number of dengue cases reported in El Oro since the beginning of this year until 42 weeks, of which eight are classified as severe (hemorrhagic). Según se puede constatar en el cuadro adjunto, Machala es la más golpeada por la enfermedad. As can be seen in the table below, Machala is […]
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It was the serotype 4 and the institution urged governments to step up efforts to reduce the risk of infection and disease-related death.”This year outbreaks of dengue with a total number of cases and deaths that exceed recorded historical data on Paraguay, Panama and the Caribbean countries and territories, English and French. There was also […]
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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has issued an epidemiological alert that urges member countries to deepen the early detection of cases of dengue , reported the Ministry of Health of the Nation noted that the prevention campaign developed since 2009 possible to reduce 96 percent of infections in Argentina. According to official data from […]
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Lepaterique Honduran Francisco Morazan .- Deputies toured South America and the municipality of Lepaterique, Francisco Morazán, in order to know the pilot gardens promoted from the previous year, the liberal lawmaker, Yadira Bendaña. The deputies were able to see the production of kitchen gardens. The project is funded by the National Congress, with a total […]
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According to information from the Governor Cesar Duarte, Chihuahua 250 000 people are at risk of famine Mayor announced Hector Murguia. Drought considered as contributory factor. Read Article
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In the more than 26 million Mexicans facing food poverty, and economic assets, “are women and men living in rural areas and have no effective access to adequate food, health, education, social security, housing, no job, “as well, there is famine Durango, Zacatecas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Mexico State, Oaxaca and Guerrero, the poverty of the area, […]
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The authorities estimate that between 25 and 30 thousand people would be affected in the event of a natural disaster in the capital of the Republic, since that is the number of people who have their homes in vulnerable areas. The figures are of the forum on Quito’s vulnerability to disasters, made in 2010, but […]
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The Ministry of Agriculture reports that as a result of the floods, more than 240 000 cattle have been mobilized to safe areas and more than 344 000 hectares have been damaged. The deputy of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food, Hector Palacios Limonchi reported that 344 000 626.5 hectares are […]
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Paraguayan health officials said Tuesday that an outbreak of FMD in cattle in the department of San Pedro (center), found in September, was a human error. “After recent laboratory analysis we can affirm that the outbreak of FMD found in the department of San Pedro was produced by a fault in the system of vaccination, […]
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The private hospitals in The private hospitals in Tucumán are virtually paralyzed. In most of them, the workers’ wage claims prevented outside attention, and only the guards and hospitalizations are functioning normally.The Association of Health Workers Argentina (ATSA) called the strike at the failure of the joint agreement reached in July, which gave a 33% […]
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HIV infection in adults over 45 years almost tripled in the last decade in Argentina, a trend driven by increased sexual activity thanks to Viagra and are not protected by condoms, according to health statistics released today. The infection rate increased from 7 to 20% of new infections, according to studies of the Argentine Ministry […]
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Some brands of cigarettes were increased until reaching 10.64 percent. This is the third year up facing the sector so far in 2011, taking into account that the former were in February and June (5 percent and 3.5 respectively), in order to overcome the revenue year amounting to $ 9,250 million. The further increase above […]
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A woman was arrested Friday afternoon after she was found selling antibiotics out of her minivan trunk on a San Rafael street, police said. Around 12:30 p.m. police received a complaint about a woman selling items from the back of her car in the 300 block of Canal Street. When police arrived at the location […]
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Ecuador is willing to promote research to develop a device that allows the blind to “see” through sound based on the experience of Harbisson Neil, who has achromatopsia, but “see “colors through musical notes. This was stated today the Vice President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, during the weekly report of work to remember that this […]
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Along with alcohol and ecstasy, Viagra has become a common component outputs and young adults. Today it is considered a “recreational pill”, linked to the demands of a high sexual performance and take “just in case” is becoming more present in the culture night. It is estimated that 60 percent take it without prescription. In […]
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President Rafael Correa announced the intention of his government to declare the country free from child malnutrition in the next four years. At least one of every five children under five is below the appropriate height for his/her age, or suffers chronic malnutrition in Ecuador, a country of young people, where 13 percent of the […]
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The Secretary of Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries, Rafael Elvira Quesada, warned that the problem of drought and affect 55% of the country, where thousands of Mexicans have no jobs, food and water. Asked why the Chamber of Deputies from 500 to allocate 700 million pesos to double the amount of the Temporary Employment Program […]
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Stroke (CVA) causes one death every four minutes in Argentina, making it the second leading cause of death after heart disease and the leading cause crippling disability in people over 40 years. However, since the state have not been developed preventive measures specific to the pathology and for this reason, Argentina Neurological Society decided three […]
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In order to reduce the sodium content in processed food groups, the Ministries of Health and Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Nation tomorrow will sign a framework agreement with the Coordinator of Food Industries (COPAL) in order Argentina’s population that decrease the amount of salt and, thus, influence is achieved on one of the […]
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Emerging criminal gangs forcing shop owners to buy their liquor. The extortion and even threaten them with death. This business allows them to finance other criminal activities. A study by the University of Antioquia, released by El Tiempo revealed that these criminal groups from Colombia promoted the sale of adulterated drinks. “The shopkeepers and traders […]
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A German tourist, 69 years old died, apparently of a heart attack while he was visiting the province of Pisac. He passed away en route to a hospital. Agents arrived to the place of the National Police and tourism tax shift, who after the investigation of the case ordered that the body of an Argentine […]
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The detection of at least six patients with meningitis in Rio Claro de Golfito yesterday prompted intervention by the Ministry of Health. Eduardo Cedeño, chief of the local emergency committee of Rio Claro, said the initial information was that all those affected were students at the Central Leader School in that community. Read Article
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The National Children’s Hospital (HNN) for “aspects of agreement” between his analysis of the cardiac surgery mortality and study on the same subject, made the Institute for Research and Education on Nutrition and Health (incense).Both tests show a high postoperative mortality in heart minors. According to the HNN, died in 2010 15.4% of children with […]
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Crocodile is the new drug for the poor, and those who do not have the resources to pay for heroin.This new drug that would replace the ‘Paco’ is composed of codeine, mixed with gasoline, thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorus, this mixture will affect consumers because they can die in a period of three […]
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Only 350 local governments, there are more than 1,800 across the country, have a Municipal Office of Attention to Persons with Disabilities (OMAP), today unveiled the Conadis. The president of the National Commission for Integration of Persons with Disabilities ( Conadis ), Wilfredo Guzman said that this situation the lack of interest that give local […]
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Following the announcement of the arrival of Ideam La Nina phenomenon, continues to feel the fury of the second winter season in Colombia. The director of the Office of Risk Management of the Ministry of Interior, Carlos Ivan Marquez, revealed on Friday that the winter that plagues much of the country and left 35 people […]
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Tarija .- The underground brick factories that exist in the neighborhood of this city Germain Busch throw the worthless products in the ravines of Gallinazo and Sagredo, causing pollution in the waters of two tributaries that flow into the river Guadalquivir.The two streams have a foul smell because they also receive household sewage waste, which […]
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The surgeon Aulestia Salvador Navarrete was among a group of doctors who cared for the President in the Miraflores Palace before he trusted their health to the Cuban doctors. Given his experience, says that the president suffers from an aggressive malignant tumor of muscle origin lodged in the pelvis and said that life expectancy could […]
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The Venezuelan doctor Salvador Navarrete, said through a letter published by the newspaper TalCual his diagnosis was “presumptive” and that was the Mexican newspaper who published the interview with “a myriad of misrepresentations and elucunbraciones” El Salvador Navarrete Venezuelan doctor, who diagnosed that the life expectancy of President Hugo Chavez is two years due to […]
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“These lenses may cause eyestrain, headaches, meaty and lens opacity (cataract). This is worn by absorbing the sun’s rays directly, and having a filter, blocking the rays to the lens and cataract occurs “. The retina can degenerate, although no disease prescribed by sun exposure there. “These lenses distort the image and the eye strives […]
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41 cases of leptospirosis had Barranquilla from 1 January to September 3 this year, while in the same period in 2010 registered 122, National Institute of Health (NIH). Fanny Castro, 79, resident of the neighborhood Chiquinquirá, was the second fatality that left last year’s leptospirosis in the capital of the Atlantic. This infection is caused […]
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More than 60 percent of bats are placed in trees, mostly a few meters from the houses, especially in palm and mango plants. Studying the possible degree of transmissibility of these diseases to individuals. An investigation of the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE) performs an identification of the bat population of […]
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The authorities of the Ministry of Health on Tuesday moved a contingent of doctors and nurses to the south of the country, to make medical teams in the six shelters of Choluteca and Valle. Many people walk barefoot in areas contaminated with leptospirosis.The head of the National Anti-Dengue, Roxana Araujo, said they are not alone […]
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The head of the Dengue, program dependent Departmental Health Service (Headquarters), Virgilio Prieto, expresses its concern at the high rate of larval presence in some districts of the city, especially downtown. “We have left the dry season and larval infestation is triggered, we do not know what will happen as we enter the rainy season. […]
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Ecuadorinmediato.com, reported there are 93 confirmed cases of measles in Ecuador. 86 of the cases are located in the Tungurahua province. Four are in Quito and the remaining dispersed in other sectors of the country. The Ministry of Health is planning on a broad scale vaccination program. The government is waiting on a supply of […]
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On October 19, health authorities warned of outbreaks of viral diseases and lack of food in Central America, while the death toll due to heavy rains, floods and landslides consequential continues to rise. The death toll has reached 97. 10 days ago, it rains non-stop, which affects hundreds of thousands of people. Authorities have reported […]
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Snow and Rebolo, two populous neighborhoods southeast of Barranquilla, have continued to be the epicenter of the underground factories of adulterated liquor, according to reports from the Metropolitan Police. The remark was made evident a couple of days ago when researchers Sijin, in coordination with the prosecutor, made operational in two houses accurate, achieving seize […]
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Although Chile is one of the countries of Latin America with the best health indicators, analysis of the figures by region, socioeconomic group or educational level is revealed profound inequality, where the gaps in recent years even in time of lower increase, as reflected in the National Health Survey, 2009-2010. People with lower income or […]
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SAN PEDRO DE YCUAMANDYYÚ (Omar Acosta, correspondent). Auditors Russians, Dr. Ludmila Abramava, Dr. Vladimir Ferisov, Dr. Victor Kikiforov and translator Oleg Marchenko, visited the provincial capital district where the outbreak of disease detected. Russian auditors visited the area yesterday, the focus of disease and even Santa Helena entered the establishment and toured parts of the […]
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A suspected outbreak of bovine rabies was detected in the province of Manabi, Jipijapa canton, in the enclosure El Mamey. According to authorities, the issue has been addressed in a timely and there is no danger.The Ecuadorian Agency for Quality Assurance Agro (Agrocalidad) has taken actions such as the ban of the site, communication with […]
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Since the 1980s, suicide has become the third leading cause of death among youth aged 15 to 24 years . Exceeded only by accidents, assaults, in the case of men-and tumor diseases -in the case of women. Since this type of death is a taboo in our culture, the official information we have about it […]
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Some 82 elements of the Mexican Army and 14 Navy have committed suicide, and many more have tried, since the crime-fighting began, orchestrated by Felipe Calderon. This makes it known to the weekly Proceso, who filed by Transparency Act to the secretariats of National Defense (SEDENA) and Navy (Semar) information about the members of the […]
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The Nicaragua Health authorities today reported the detection of 16 new cases of swine flu in the last hours, bringing the number of people infected with the disease this month rose to 127, no fatalities. “We now have 127 confirmed cases” with the H1N1 virus, told reporters the director of quality of care Nicaraguan Ministry […]
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The Ministry of Public Health, through an interdisciplinary team on Wednesday issued Goya, a training workshop based on the Program regulations for Provincial shortly Chagas control and monitoring of the parasitic disease . They plan to begin work on three major areas of the Department where teams will fall the province and then monitoring will […]
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Health workers hold a strike at 27 hospitals in Cordoba for five weeks salary problems. But from the provincial government still refuses to open a salary discussion, media reports said Cordoba. The work stoppage in Cordoba hospitals and in its fifth week, and the guards are only guaranteed minimum and emergency care and emergencies. Yesterday, […]
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It is estimated that breast cancer Argentina sum 17 000 cases a year and kills more than 5 000 women. These alarming figures transcend the world day to combat the disease.”In the world of breast cancer is one of the most common tumors in women and a leading cause of cancer death. It is considered […]
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Depending on the country of destination, travelers can apply yellow fever vaccine, cholera, diphtheria, tetanus, tick-borne encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis, typhoid, influenza, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, pneumonia pneumonia, pneumonic plague, polio, meningitis, rabies and measles. Read Article
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The crime was committed in a house in the area of Miraflores. The victim, LAV, 25, prefers not to publish even the street where the incident occurred for fear that criminals return for revenge. Neither filed a complaint in anti-crime force because he believes that would be a waste of time. Read Article
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Brazil will double its production of benznidazole, a drug against Chagas disease, and plans to deliver aid agencies tablets 3.425 million until the end of the year, announced Health Minister Alexandre Padilha. Medications will see patients from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay, Venezuela and Uruguay, according to the Brazilian government official, the only country in the […]
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An outbreak of malaria could be aggressive and lethal affects a sector of the population in the department of Olancho, said today Congressman Francisco Rivera. This type of malaria “plasmodium falciparum” being presented sector in the Campamento Viejo, Olancho Department, said the deputy. Read Article
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Mass African snails were discovered by the local residents of Socorro Jose Antonio Galan, glued into two lots on 19th Street this week. Because citizenship is becoming more aware of how the specimen is often proliferate rapidly to become a real plague, gave timely notice to the Police Community and Environmental Relief, which arrived on […]
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The Government reported that the second wave of rain has affected 25 departments in the country. Overflowing rivers and streams, landslides and road closures are the main consequences of rainfall. Due to difficult weather conditions, the Directorate of Traffic and Transport Police reported that five roads have a total closure by the rains. In Quindio, […]
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434 000 787 new cases of respiratory infections are those that the Mexican Social Security Institute has recorded so far this year more likely to be children of one to four years, who presented 105 000 689 cases, then there are young adults aged 25 to 44 years old with 82 000 216 cases. This […]
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Augusto Perez, Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Leuven (Belgium) and Director of the Corporation New Directions, said in a study done in 2006 by the United Nations and the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD ), “Colombia ranked first in benzodiazepine use among adolescents aged 12 to 17 years.” A product of […]
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The Health Ministry warned that the current larval infestation rate is conducive to the spread of dengue, which could be repeated by an epidemic of the disease and that all the conditions.The State makes Portfolio Ming and environmental awareness campaigns for the prevention of dengue, and everything points to a new epidemic, according to a […]
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Winds of 120 kilometers per hour up the ash accumulated on the slopes of Puyehue and scattered about Buenos Aires, Entre Rios, Cordoba and even Uruguay. They closed the Jorge Newbery and Ezeiza tracks Córdoba and Montevideo. The gray dust cloak reappeared yesterday in Buenos Aires: the cloud of ash originating from the volcano Puyehue […]
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Like a dream can now see the young Emily Brown, Mercedes Charles, Jack and Ihsan N. Lubke Muhammad received the ability as doctors in Cuba to serve their home communities in the United States. The four freshman in the Latin American Medical School (ELAM) and confessed to Prensa Latina that felt no fear before coming […]
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Brazil received in three days, two containers with 46 tons of trash from the U.S. hospital in the port of Suape, near Recife (Pernambuco state, northeast), said Friday customs inspection to the Brazilian press.Waste (gloves, masks, syringes, surgical pajamas, sheets and dirty towels, etc.) were imported by the Brazilian company clothing Capibaribe-Santa Cruz in textile […]
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Forget about super-sizing into the trenta a few years from now: Starbucks is warning of a threat to world coffee supply because of climate change. In a telephone interview with the Guardian, Jim Hanna, the company’s sustainability director, said its farmers were already seeing the effects of a changing climate, with severe hurricanes and more […]
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Call for greater control in the driving school as a preventive measure Traffic accidents in the capital every day increasing. So far this year there have been 434 traffic accidents causing 446 deaths. The year 2010, 568 accidents were recorded, leaving 592 dead. Drunk driving is one of the main factors causing these fatal accidents. […]
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The Regional Health Bureau Tacna is in permanent epidemiological alert to the 540 cases of H1N1 influenza positives detected in eight departments of Bolivia, so that the executive director of Epidemiology, Edgar Tejada Vasquez announced that carry out coordination with the Regional and Arequipa , Puno and Moquegua, as well as health services Arica (Chile), […]
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The Association of North Lima announced that it signed in the coming days an agreement will serve to provide greater security to the residents of this sector of the capital. This is an agreement with the National Police with the aim of a helicopter that institution to patrol the area and thus help prevent and […]
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The more than 15 000 women who attended the National Meeting of Women yesterday marched through downtown San Carlos Bariloche, venue of the meeting, and demanded the sanction of a law Congress that includes the abortion safe, legal and free.”There is no room for discussion of abortion or abortion do not, because society is mature […]
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23 dogs died from poisoning in the shell. The Regional Directorate of Health stated that there are 700 reports of persons bitten, but animal rights activists doubt the figure.On September 27 the alert spread through social networks: animal shelters and homeless dogs Proamar warned that the Department of Health New Sparta had ordered a slaughter […]
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The Ministry of Health in Queretaro confirmed the increase of cases of people infected with dengue in addition to the geographical expansion of the disease, which until last week was seen as an outbreak was under control. Suman 68 people that have become ill in the last 36 days. Read Article
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An outbreak of diarrhea, which has forced entry into the last week to at least 20 people in different health centers, has broken out in the alley’s 40, Villas Agricultural sector of the capital, which is attributed by neighbors place to misuse of drinking water. Patients, a three-day income and other hydrated for several hours […]
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Health authorities in the state [of Guanajuato, Mexico] have reported the occurrence of 19 cases of hepatitis A [virus infection] in the towns of Leon and Dolores Hidalgo. The health secretary, Ector Jaime Ramirez Barba, confirmed the detection of 18 of these cases in the municipality of Leon. They were recorded in the primary schools, […]
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There are five provinces under surveillance in the presence of this virus. The affected are Tungurahua, where the outbreak began in the nearby Cotopaxi, where and started a mass vaccination plan-, Los Rios and Loja. Today the warning came to the Amazon, Ecuavisa reported. In Pastaza has 3 children with symptoms of having contracted the […]
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Matter of urgency Ecuador 1.2 million doses of vaccine for a strain of measles confront Africa and prevent an outbreak of the disease detected in the center of the country spread to the mainland, said on Wednesday the Ministry of Health. The Secretary of Health, Fatima Franco, said the strain of measles known in this […]
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“At lab confirmed that 27 people were infected with the virus. All are treated, “said Escobar. However, the official warned that three of the confirmed cases occurred in the urban area of Ambato. These are children who live in neighborhoods Huachi and El Progreso and in the streets and First Printing Darquea in the center […]
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The Ministry of Health reported 428 infected with influenza A (H1N1) and about two thousand suspected cases in six of the nine departments. Have so far died of the flu a woman of 59 years in Tarija, a boy of 64 years in Potosi and two others in Santa Cruz, a 12-year old girl and […]
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COESIDA reports that in Oaxaca there are 996 thousand infected with the virus, of which 86 are children.Based on the latest report of the State Council for the Prevention of AIDS (COESIDA) in the state of Oaxaca has killed more than 2 000 people in the last 25 years because of this virus, as reported […]
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The Bolivian region of Santa Cruz today suspended for 10 days and educational activities due to a red alert as a result of H1N1 influenza peak, reported the news agency Prensa Latina. Oscar Urenda, secretary of the governor, said that the preventative measure response to a rapid increase in the number of cases of influenza, […]
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The environmental authorities seized the Barrancabermeja area after alarms in areas surrounding the creek and the river’s Cabezonera Sogamoso, given the high mortality of fish that is recorded in unknown place after several sacks of cement thrown into the waters of tributary. Read Article
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Civil servants of Invima manipulated the organization’s databases to grant illegal sanitary registries, El Tiempo reports. According to an internal investigation, there were seven cases of duplicity from registries. Some of the products the organization deals with can be utilized for criminal purposes, though no product was commercialized; however, the problem is that the registry […]
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According to contrapunto.com.sv, since 2006, hundreds of corpses have been discovered in dozens of clandestine graveyards in San Salvador and its outskirts. Ninety five percent of the corpses are for individuals under seventeen years of age and eighty five percent of them are female. These numbers are frightening, even for one of the most violent […]
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Antiretrovirals 10 times more expensive in Mexico Despite the many experiments in France, Cuba and the United States, especially in mice, medical science has failed to achieve a vaccine against infection with human immunodeficiency virus, said Apolonio Gomez, a member organizer Global Village for the World AIDS Conference 2008 in Mexico. Read Article
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Secretary of Health, Solomon Chertorivski Woldenberg, proposed during their participation in the plenary on the progress of the Millennium Development Goals related to health, strengthen the prevention and vaccination campaigns, and suggest that those countries not yet included against pneumococcus and rotavirus biological study the measures to restore. Read Article
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There are now 39 confirmed cases of dengue in the state, according to Health Secretary Feregrino Mario Cesar Garcia, who described it as a historic outbreak in Querétaro in regard to virus spread by mosquitoes. Read Article
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The Ministry of Health in Hidalgo (SSH) confirmed a total of 608 cases of hepatitis in the institution for so far this year, said the director of industrial relations of dependency, Israel Mendoza López. He stated that during 2011 there is a reduction of cases compared to 2010, before the various preventive measures and programs […]
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The National Institute of Food and Drug Monitoring (Invima) warned about the danger of consumption of a product of Chinese origin known as Bi Yan Pian, whose use is intended to combat disorders associated with nasal congestion, rhinitis, colds and flu due to its high concentration of mercury. Read Article
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Fake drugs are still on sale in Guatemala The marketing reports of counterfeit drugs, especially cough syrups, tonics and multivitamins drinkable, have not diminished, especially in the western part of Guatemala. Some pharmacies buy and sell counterfeit drugs without checking the legality of these products. Read Article
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Jorge Diaz, Secretary of Health, said yesterday that an outbreak of typhoid fever, which was detected in the last two weeks in the area west of the Metropolitan Region with seven cases to date is “unusual” and reports that increased surveillance to determine the source of contagion. He argues that they are “working hard in […]
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5 proven cases of measles believed to have been imported, and 11 suspects under observation are recorded in the province of Tungurahua. According to authorities, the site of infection is located in the parish of Quisapincha. Read Article
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The Ministry of Public Health confirmed yesterday that the provinces in canine visceral leishmaniasis outbreak affecting Corrientes has already passed the hundred cases. The last infected dogs were detected in the San Martín, where yesterday we developed a vector lock operation. According to the registration of the health portfolio, are 101 Capital infected dogs so […]
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The Ecuadorian Agency for Quality Assurance Agro (Agrocalidad) today reported an outbreak of bovine rabies, caused by the bite of bats in the Amazonian province of Morona Santiago (southeast), border Peru. Agrocalidad said in a statement that the outbreak “has been treated promptly in order to control the effects of this disease.”The health agency Ecuador […]
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RIFLE HEALTH: 130 CATTLE were eliminated in the EVE Yesterday began the slaughter of animals affected by the disease Neighbouring utmost care to prevent disease outbreak affecting exports of meat from other members of Mercosur. Yesterday we proceeded to stamping out for the slaughter of the 819 heads affected by FMD, as determined by the […]
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That the file quoted in the book having added the immediate notification report communicated to the Organization for Animal Health (OIE) which reports on the occurrence of an outbreak of FMD in a cattle of the Department of San Pedro the REPUBLIC OF PARAGUAY. That the sanitary condition of the REPUBLIC OF ARGENTINA requires the […]
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Faculty engineers that develop, experiment, panels and blocks using the husk that remains after the cotton gin. The materials could be used in construction. In a unique project that integrates the applied knowledge production with a proposed alternative, researchers at the Santa Fe UTN develop materials for construction waste by a most unusual sometimes becomes […]
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Last Friday there was a party in the Indian community Pulcallpa, where the imposing concrete housing overshadowed the few remaining adobe. Its inhabitants had at least two reasons for his happiness: the recovery of the 42 residents who were poisoned (August 26) and thanks for the miracle of the Virgin of the Swan. A group […]
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“We have an epidemic of cerebral vascular disease that has already become a serious public health problem in Latin America ‘says the BBC Dr. Carlos Cantu, head of the Department of Neurology, National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán in Mexico and founder of the Mexican Association of Cerebral Vascular Disease. And this […]
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A monthly average of 110 cases of fleeing from road accidents have occurred so far in 2011, denoting a loss of human valuesand ethics, said the Department of Roads, whose fines can amount to several thousand dollars per irresponsible driving. The events are divided in-flight collision, hit-and injury-drain leakage, the first category presents the most […]
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During the month of July, the causes of traffic accidents focus on the inexperience of the drivers. La ingesta de licor por parte de quienes van al volante sigue siendo un problema en el tránsito, independientemente de que en los accidentes se den o no víctimas mortales. The intake of alcohol by those behind the […]
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