Canada is seen as a friendly nation but many indigenous communities say they have a dirty secret. Canada’s mining industry, the largest in the world, controls a majority of Latin American mining. Activists say they pollute and violate human rights without accountability from the Canadian government. Mining companies argue they build schools, health centres, roads and provide jobs.
In this episode of The Stream, we speak to Meera Karunananthan (@meerakar) from the Council of Canadians and John McKay (@johnmckaylib), Canadian Member of Parliament. Members of The Stream community also join via Google+.
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Through week 32, Tachira state has reported 535 cases of dengue fever, which represents an increase of 27 percent compared to the figures reported last year by the same date, the increase is due precisely to the rains that have fallen in recent days, however, cases of DHF they have had a decrease of 31 […]
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Fabricio Delgado, technical director of the Institute of Neurosciences, Guayaquil Welfare Board, says that despite all the efforts that have been made to prevent the consumption, the average age of first use is maintained between 13 and 14 years. Therefore argues that we must intensify prevention in the most vulnerable group. The center opened in […]
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Eluniverso.com reported frequent users of buses in Canton Chilla and parishes Uzhcurrumi, Abañín, Guanazán and about 50 surrounding communities who have expressed a lot of fear when traveling, as units covering those routes constitute a danger. In this area, in a span of three days, there were two accidents. In the first, last Friday, 18 […]
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Units belonging to Battalion SENAFRONT Caribbean diligence conducted raid in company secretary Ramiro Free of Nargana personality, to a retirement community Mulatupo in Kuna Yala region, resulting in the seizure of 138 balls and three alleged drug marijuana manila paper wrappers kept inside a dried herb, which is presumed to be the aforementioned drugs, making […]
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The research warns that the high consumption and laryngeal cancer cause mouth. It should be the high water temperature consistent with a chemical that causes the grass. The doctor Uruguayan Eduardo De Stefani released a report and the controversy exploded: he and his team claim that the mate is carcinogenic to the mouth and pharynx, […]
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The problem is repeated in most sidewalks, hindering the movement of the elderly or disabled, as Esteban Orellana, architect of the National Research Institute of Gerontology, INIGER. Cuenca is a city within the project pilot cities for seniors and people with disabilities, a study launched by the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion, in conjunction […]
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In recent months dengue has gotten worse in El Salvador, a trend that has turned combating the disease into a national priority. According to the PAHO/WHO Representative in El Salvador, by June 15, the number of clinical cases of Dengue reached 1301 (an incidence rate of 20.28 per 100 thousand population), 92% (1200) of which […]
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Delivered 60,000 mosquito nets In order to protect the residents of the mosquito that transmits malaria and dengue, the Ministry of Health will provide 60,000 bed nets in 20 communities of Nuevo San Carlos and San Andres Villa Seca, Retalhuleu, which were donated by the World Health. Read Article
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Ppelverdadero.com.ec reported that at 22:00 on Wednesday, Carlos Ceron Albuja Thomas, 43 years old, with Ricardo Patricio Simba Panchi were presumably drugged while drawing money from the cashier of the Bank of Guayaquil, located in the streets Cuero y Caicedo and August 10. According to reports from relatives of Ceron, he died while being taken […]
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Elcomercio.com reported… Some cancer patients being treated at the Hospital Eugenio Espejo, have experienced irregularity in the delivery of your medications. The explanation given to them in the hospital is that the shortage is due to theft that occurred in the hospital pharmacy, on 26 May, which amounted to almost USD 55,000. One patient who […]
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Department referral specialists wield as causes that trend fundamental bisexuality of many married men (Which then infect their wives), low condom use among people over 40 years in age is also increasing the epidemic, as well as the initiation of sexual intercourse at very early. Read Article
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The director of the School of Medicine of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), Ricardo Cordero Boza, said doctors with college Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba (ELAM), have “serious deficiencies “in their education, reports the Costa Rican El País. Boza Lamb gave a press conference after 26 doctors Island graduates approval to conduct […]
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For more than two weeks all detergents for use Pet stores have disappeared from collecting currency. As much as walk in your search for the businesses located in streets crowded city, as Belascoaín, Monte, Diez de Octubre, Reina Galiano and do not find the product of any brand or price. Up which was for sale […]
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The Pediatric Hospital Guantanamo Pedro Agustín Pérez confirmed Radio Martí’s income children infected with dengue. A clinic worker said entry continues.Patients with symptoms of the disease, but insisted on using the official euphemism “for suspected dengue” and did not specify the number of infected, would only say: “more or less”. Read Article
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After reporting 160 suspected cases of people with classic dengue fever confirmed six cases of DHF, Dr. J. Trinidad Rios Gonzalez, director of the Health Center, believes the municipality of San Lucas in Red alert via vector-borne disease. Read Article
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The Ministry of Health (MINSAL) today confirmed the third death from dengue in El Salvador so far in 2012. The Deputy Health Minister Eduardo Espinoza, said that the victim was less than a year, Nonualco Santiago resident, in the central province of La Paz. He said the boy died in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) […]
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An internal investigation at Hospital Abel Gilbert Guayaqui pontoon l discovered a web of corruption that marketed the drugs destined for the nursing home, and are subsidized by the Government. Leakage of drugs began with the Lead Systems, Javier Patiño, who manipulated the computer program that took control of the hospital’s drug stock. Read Article
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Prensalibre.com reported most chronic kidney patients with congestive farm work as cane harvest. These employees experience great physical effort and are exposed to high temperaturas.Foto: Illustrative. To Social Security Fund (CCSS) yesterday confirmed a large increase in patients with congestive kidney disease in the province of Guanacaste, reaching 112.9 per 100 thousand inhabitants, so that […]
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Rpp.com.pe reported cases of asthma in the city of Arequipa has increased in recent years due to environmental pollution registered, currently, as revealed, the director of Environmental Health at the Regional Health Management, Percy Madariaga. He said that cases increased by 25 percent, a fact that is worrying since 30 years ago, Birmingham was a […]
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The first production cycle, in some regions, was seriously affected by the entrance of the El Niño phenomenon, which caused a heatwave longer than usual, recorded in some departments that are in the dry corridor between 35 and 45 days without rain. The southern municipalities of Francisco Morazán, such as: Curaren, Reitoca, Alubaren, La Libertad […]
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The director of the General Hospital of San Luis Rio Colorado, Kelly Sergio Barraza, on Thursday reported two people dead from the heat in this county. He said that the summer season has severely beaten villagers as nine people have symptoms of dehydration due to heat stroke. Read Article
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The high temperatures recorded during the heat wave has caused the most affected are the children, as reported by Jaime Emilio Gutierrez Serrano, head of the Sanitary District, No. 5. “This last week increased the number of patients with this condition caused by heat, usually had three or four cases. Read Article
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Elespectador.com reported… While speaking of the current crisis facing the health system some eyes have focused on the financial hole that has brought corruption sector, the Ministry of Finance, the Comptroller and Congress agreed that the system itself has sufficient resources to be solved, but what happens is that the money is “locked”. “We have […]
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The major focus of malaria transmission in the country is found in the state of Bolivar, as reported by the Director of Environmental Health in the state of Monagas, Mary Villarrollo. The spread of the disease is through the anopheles mosquito, which can carry parasites like the living, falsiparo, Read Article
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A dengue outbreak in eastern Cuba has forced the authorities to make a vocational school in a hospital, according to reports from the area. In turn, a city already suffering from a cholera epidemic now facing an increase in the number of dengue-carrying mosquitoes. Medical staff in the city of Camagüey said the vocational school […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that two chemical tests were performed in different nursing homes to determine the chemicals that caused the death of Ronald Veintimilla Alexis Diaz, 29, early Sunday, the day after his friend Rolando socialize with Leonel González Vélez assaulted them. Lorena Vargas Morán González’s wife, says they went to Junior’s nightclub in Alborada, where […]
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Just a little over two hours survived the little Steven Daniel Zavala Maldonado, of five years, after drinking a pesticide used to combat the pest snail and his father, Darwin Maldonado, kept at home. It happened last Sunday in a countryside venue the League, the canton St. Lucia, province of Guayas. According to relatives, the […]
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Ciudad del Este. Regional Agency. – The International Organization for Migration has been working on a pilot project on Trafficking in Children and Adolescents in South American countries. For the effect produced a discussion paper in which it is stated that, “servile marriage is another form of exploitation that takes place in the domestic sphere, […]
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B otellas unregistered health wine, shrimp shabby kitchen containers crammed with butter and fat is what was observed on Tuesday in several chifas of Guayaquil. This situation led to the authorities of the Provincial Directorate of Guayas (DPSG) and the Commissioner of Health resolved that these businesses should be closed, since one of them until […]
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Experts from Hospital Clínic of Barcelona today launched a warning to travelers going to Cuba to take precautionary measures, such as bottled water, to prevent the spread of cholera, which has entered the Caribbean island decades after the last outbreak. Available vaccines against cholera have limited effectiveness, and usually not recommended, highlights the coordinator of […]
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In Oaxaca, the campaign conducted by officials from the Ministry of Health and workers in the fight against malaria, has been concluded, we have no cases of the disease and we are an example to the national and international level said Leopoldo Villegas Márquez, general secretary of the Section 73 of SNTSA. However, sectional leader […]
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The authorities of the Ministry of Health on Sunday closed until further notice the tank that supplies water to areas where there has been an outbreak of diarrhea and vomiting in the municipality Tamboril, Santiago province. At least 300 people are in health you enter by the outbreak, which has symptoms similar to cholera. Read […]
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Syphilis and Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Sero-Prevalence Among Female Sex Workers and Men Who Have Sex with Men in Ecuador and Andhra Pradesh (India) Abstract: Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) are a major public health issue worldwide. Despite of that, there is lack of data on their magnitude particularly in developing countries. Previous studies have […]
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Abstract Triatoma dimidiata is one of the primary vectors of Chagas disease. We previously documented the spatio-temporal infestation of houses by this species in the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, and found that non-domiciliated triatomines were specifically attracted to houses. However, the factors mediating this attraction remained unclear. Artificial light has been known for a long time […]
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ABSTRACT: Chagas disease (CD) is an emergent disease in Europe that can behave as an opportunistic infection in HIV positive patients. The objective of this study was to evaluate the implementation of a CD screening programme in an HIV unit. An immunochromatography (ICT) of Trypanosoma cruzi was performed as a screening tool in HIV-positive patients […]
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The female condom, implant and monthly injection was officially incorporated by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in the products delivered free to the population of reproductive age. The launch of such contraceptive methods was carried yesterday in the International Day of Family Planning, by the Deputy Health Minister Jose del Carmen Sara, in the main […]
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In Colombia, 44,000 people die each year from diseases associated with smoking.Cigarette because of five people die every hour in Colombia due to cardio respiratory disease that leaves the snuff, as confirmed by the Colombian Society of Cardiology. Read Article
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Concerned that in Coahuila year 300 women are killed by cancer about cervical and breast cancer, the health sector in the states of Coahuila, Durango and Zacatecas, implemented over the next six months an online course for those who perform such reviews. Marco Antonio Ruiz PRADIS, Director of Prevention of Coahuila Secretariat of Health, said […]
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In Mexico, road accidents leave 16 000 deaths result each year from traffic accidents, a million injured, 40 thousand people with permanent disabilities, and 150 billion dollars in direct and indirect costs. It is the leading cause of death and orphans in children between five and 14 years and the first cause of death among […]
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The Cuban authorities asked their citizens on Friday to support a campaign against the mosquito that transmits dengue and warned that a low perception of risk among the population despite the danger of contracting the disease. Local media these days multiplied short educational and offered expert commentary repeatedly urging people to step up the cleaning […]
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Joined the second death from dengue in 2012, he was a man of 49 years treated at the clinic of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) in Cancun, which was complicated by renal disease , liver and obesity. Nationally, the death of that person, is the second death from dengue, as contemplated in the annual […]
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As part of the control, prevention and security that executes the national government through the Department of Crime Prevention (DPD), the National Anti-Drug Office and the National Land Transport (INTT ) have been sanctioned to 182 drivers for alcohol and / or drugs in the country, when subjected to the tests that apply to drivers […]
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Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral disease, is one of the most important emerging tropical diseases. Dengue is hyper-endemic in coastal Ecuador, where all four serotypes co-circulate. The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) influences climate in Ecuador, with positive phase ENSO (El Niño) associated with wetter and warmer conditions over the southern coastal region. In turn, greater […]
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The countries of Latin America have increased calorie consumption supported by economic improvement that exists in the whole region, but a sedentary lifestyle and lack of physical activity is safe for health, said today the Mexican endocrine Fernando Lavalle. Lavalle, director of the Beverage Institute for Health and Welfare (IBSB) of the Coca-Cola, told Efe […]
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The rains that have occurred in recent days in Puerto Vallarta significantly increase the presence of mosquitoes whenever there are more puddles and standing water in homes, said Rafael Nunez Gomez, director of the Eighth Sanitary District. In this regard noted that not all mosquitoes are of Aedes aegypti, which is the transmitter of dengue, […]
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Havana, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) More than 5,000 patients have undergone kidney transplants in Cuba, since the beginning of this kind of surgery in the country in the 70s, an official from the Public Health Ministry said. Read Article
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Cases of dengue fever in El Salvador doubled in January-July, over the same period of 2011, as authorities declared an alert evaluated in parts of the country to fight the evil that now leaves two deaths, reported Tuesday the ministry of Health. Between January and July, there were 4,107 confirmed cases of dengue, 3874 and […]
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The Public Services Regulatory Authority (Aresep) revealed that gasoline distributed here by the Costa Rican Oil Refinery (Recope) contains an additive that causes damage to cars and health of users. The chemical detected is methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl (MMT in English) and is present in gasoline plus super and distributing Recope since January, threw a Aresep […]
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A woman of 21, identified as Andrea, was arrested yesterday morning by members of the police while carrying a fetus in a box of five months pregnant. According apprehended, she suffered a spontaneous abortion at home and therefore carried the fetus in a box to take to a health center. Read Article
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For 31 days, starting today, will be prohibited the capture, marketing and consumption of red crabs (Ucides occidentalis) and blue (Cardisoma crassum), because it begins its molting season, that is, change the shell. This is the second year ban. The first took place between January 15 and February 15 for the breeding season of the […]
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Prosecutor accused of manslaughter two former health authorities for the deaths of four infants in the room of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Hospital de Ycaza Francisco Bustamante in Guayaquil. Read Article
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The critically ill patients being transferred to urging Portoviejo Guayaquil or are transported by the ambulances of the Fire Department of Manta and Montecristi. Yesterday Quijije Rosario, who was hospitalized Saturday in the Insurance ruptured an artery in the brain, had to be rushed to Guayaquil. The attending physician suggested the emergency. Read Article
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While the foundation is private, it also has an agreement with the Ministry of Economic and Social MIES, to meet people abandoned, said the director of the shelter, Maria Dolores Cordova. The shelter provides care to 22 elderly. The focus is on health care, physical therapy and religious service. Older adults have physical and mental […]
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According to the director of PDMVAT, in general, each year in Peru there are 80 000 road accidents. Of which 75% occur in Lima, ie about 55 000. In addition, 1,100 deaths occur annually in Lima and Callao for this cause. While 4,500 people are injured after being victims of such accidents. 900 000 traffic […]
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Doctors in the Peruvian Social Security (Essalud) today began an indefinite strike will disregard a thousand surgeries and 70,000 outpatient visits on a daily basis, as quantified by the local press union’s general secretary of the institution, Santiago Renteria Vinces. This union called a national strike in Peruvian public health to claim a permanent increase […]
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Elcolombiano.com reported up to 30 percent of liquor consumed in the department is illegal or adulterated, says the Gauteng Liquor Factory (FLA). This proportion jeopardizes the health of Antioquia, especially in these days of the Festival of Flowers, while constituting losses in taxes that should be allocated to education and health. In the case of […]
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Nurse dies after eating poisoned chicken with shrimp Family Nurse Section of Orthopedics Clinic Leo XIII, Luz Marina Salazar Quintero, 54, I asked the authorities to investigate his death, according to them, suffered food poisoning on Saturday night, after taking into a restaurant chicken with shrimp. According to one of her nieces, she came out […]
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Motorcycles and tricimotos have become a constant danger on the roads, as these cause light vehicles between 40% and 60% of all traffic accidents, as reported by the detachments of six provinces. In the first half of the year there have been only 93 deaths in Santa Elena and Guayas, according to the Transit Commission […]
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Elcomercio.com reported Older adults are now victims of scopolamine According to the Metropolitan Public Safety Observatory from January to June 2012 there were 224 complaints of assault by drugs, while in 2011 there were 250 cases. No specific figures were obtained in the Judicial Police, an agency that takes complaints, despite the insistence of this […]
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In Chile, banned such advertising, considering harmful to children. McDonald’s, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, among those affected. Believes that companies use fraudulent and abusive means to sell their products. McDonald’s, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken and other fast food chains in Chile were sued for violating the country’s new law banning toys include baby […]
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Nearly 2,000 cases of dengue fever have been reported in Guatemala with fears more may follow, reports Plan International.Heavy rain has waterlogged swathes of the tiny Central American country, creating the perfect breeding ground for disease-carrying mosquitoes.Of the 1,813 confirmed cases, 26 have developed into the more serious dengue haemorrhagic fever, with three deaths. Read […]
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Elcomercio.com reported A French neuroscientist sought justice on Tuesday called on the authorities of Ecuador for the death of his daughter, who he did not receive proper medical care after being shot in Quito in 2009. “I just want truth and justice,” said Bernard Mazoyer, who last Monday was presented to the Ecuadorian attorney testifying […]
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PORTOVIEJO-MANTA-SANTO DOMINGO The lectures in educational institutions, training medical staff and the spraying and mingas neighborhoods remain in the provinces where the highest number of dengue patients, according to the directions of Health. But these measures have not slowed the number of cases, because dengue has attacked so far 14,258 people. Of this figure, the […]
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The Secretary of Health, Solomon Chertorivsky announced that 80 million were seized from illegal cigarettes at the port of Mazatlan, which represents the largest seizure, not only in Mexico but in the world, ie , 4 million packs of about 40 pesos each. At a press conference, where he introduced the release of generic drugs, […]
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So far this year, 13 people were infected with hemorrhagic fever virus and seven died from disease development. Five municipalities have large populations of Beni mouse Calomys callosus, the government said. “For example in the municipality of Huacaraje was established that 10 rodents trapped, eight were infected with the virus, which is 80%. Populations where […]
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Elcomercio.com reported this is the scenario in the health centers in Manta. The people who work there say that violence changed the routine and had not previously similar operating. Two weeks ago, about 10 bikes with agents surrounded a nursing home. They came because the doctors announced they had reached a taxi driver shot in […]
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French pharmaceutical group Sanofi’s announced today that its dengue vaccine is effective against three of the four existing types of the disease in a clinical trial in Thailand. The study, conducted in collaboration with Mahidol University with support from the Thai Ministry of Health, was tested with 4,002 children aged four to eleven years, after […]
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An inspection surprise to city brothels found that a large part of the prostitutes not carry health cards or identity. We also found a minor in one of the premises. The more Jesus Flores commanded the operation, but before starting the tour these turned off their phones to avoid leaking any information. Subsequently, participants were […]
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A total of 734 people died in Chile in traffic accidents during the first half of 2012, the lowest in the last sixteen years, said the Chilean Government. Transport Minister Pedro Pablo Errazuriz, presented the results of the first semiannual report on road safety this year, in which 95 people died in car crashes less […]
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It was announced by the Medical Health Network Lido Soto Cáceres -Notes that although the percentage has declined relative to the past 2 years that have been increasing cases. -This would be occurring due to the fragility of the cold chain in health centers. There are 88 cases of chronic hepatitis B and Candoshi Shapra […]
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According to experts the economic crisis, the unemployment and violence have increased the stress in families causing violence for children at their homes. Many children have been exposed to violence because of the violence and even death of their caregivers. In Mexico there are more than 40 thousand orphan mistreated children due to violence in […]
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Araucania health officials banned the operation this morning, McDonald’s Portal Temuco then confirmed the presence of a mouse tail in a hamburger consumed by a customer on June 21. According to reports by the Head of the Department of Health Action SEREMI, Waldo Armstrong, upon investigation it was found that indeed the foreign element had […]
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HEALTH AUTHORITIES TAKE ACTION TO CONFRONT EMERGING RESPIRATORY VIRUS The strong presence of respiratory viruses in the saturated region and raised public hospital waiting times in emergencies. This was announced by the president of ASSE Beatriz Silva important in explaining delays in care. Meanwhile investigating the deaths of two people in the Coast Hospital have […]
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In Magdalena, Arauca, Chocó, Antioquia, Cesar, Sucre, Cundinamarca, Casanare, Caquetá, Norte de Santander, there are rabid animals, so there is a risk of infection in humans. While cases of human rabies in Colombia, reported in recent years, not to consider that there is an epidemic in the country, organizations like the National Institute of Health […]
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A different nursing homes in the province of Los Ríos were transferred yesterday about 50 people on Saturday attended the christening of the last child of the family Suarez Garcia, in the compound La Fortuna, in the canton Quinsaloma. Troy Caesar, lab technician at the health center in that city, said that the place came […]
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The third phase of rabies, which was implemented in March, found that three dogs were detected with the disease throughout the State, two in Merida and one in Tekax veterinarian reported zootecnista Enrique Marin Pech, head of the project. Read Article
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A man died after being attacked by a swarm of bees in Nogales on Wednesday afternoon. The victim, 75-year-old Ramon Figueroa Rascon of Nogales, was helping to clean up trash and debris at a business at the 3200 block of Silver Hills Drive when he moved an old tire and disturbed a bee hive underneath, […]
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Mexico: A million vaccines will be delivered from China to the Mexican Poultry union Approximately a million vaccines will be arriving Mexico from China and will be implemented to birds in Jalisco that have not been infected by the bird flu. The epidemic affected 2.5 million birds and has impacted Jalisco´s egg production. Jalisco accounts […]
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The products identified as the most adulterated are suffering alcoholic beverages and canned brands, especially sardines are imported to other brands and labels are changed Bolivia. In the case of the conserved “lyddite” the authorities of the National Service of Agricultural Health and Food Safety (SENASAG) have detected X marks importing the product and to […]
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The outbreak of H7N3 avian influenza that has affected egg producing farms in the municipalities of Acatic Tepatitlán and probably originated by the presence of wild birds, some of which we know have the virus and have an activity normal life in parts of the Pacific Ocean, from Canada to Chile, making it impossible to […]
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Municipal Health Services ** rule AIDS infection outbreaks, Hepatitis or Human Papilloma sex-servants, however, Arturo Ochoa Carrillo urged people not to rely and to refrain from this type of service, and failing, recommended citizens to use appropriate safeguards should go with prostitutes or homosexuals. After a thorough review undertaken the pattern of sex-servants, the Directorate […]
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In addition to facing a 50% increase in the price of chicken, vendors of Texcoco, La Paz, Nezahualcoyotl, Chichester, among others in the area east of the state of Mexico, are being affected because consumers left buying for fear of bird flu. No authority has approached the market to guide consumers there is no danger […]
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During the last decade, Mexico has suffered a series of demographic change that has driven the growth of chronic degenerative diseases in the country, especially diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol and cancer, conditions that in turn have modified the drug products. According to data from IMS Health, Mexico ranks number 15 worldwide in the consumption of products […]
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Mexico: Due to the avian flu cases, 110 farms have been barred in west Mexico. After the avian flu outbreak authorities have installed a sanitary barrier covering about 110 egg farms in Mexico. The Minister of Economy has analyzed the probability of egg importation because the 28% price increases. Jalisco produced about 50 percent of […]
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Bird flu has killed about 870,000 birds, sick or killed, a dozen farms in Jalisco (western Mexico), Mexican authorities confirmed on Saturday that found that there are 1.7 million birds affected. “The number of birds that have died from disease or depopulated as a control and eradication are 870,000, until today,” he said in a […]
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Medical Cusco Regional Hospital removed a tumor of more than six kilos that had formed in the spleen of a Brazilian tourist, who arrived in the Imperial City to see the enactment of the Inti Raymi, sources of hospital. Brazilian Tourist operated in the Cusco Regional Hospital is stable and improving. Brazilian Tourist operated in […]
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A total of 11.362 children under five years ill with pneumonia in Peru from January to May, and 130 of them died due to problems of nutrition, hygiene and inadequate housing for the cold, told Efe a source at the Ministry of Health. According to the latest epidemiological bulletin of the Ministry of Health, May […]
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The eight hours of work and the prosecution of medical malpractice were the main points discussed during the meeting of doctors that developed yesterday in Guayaquil. The doctors agreed that eight hours of continuous work is endangering the health professional. That with this embodiment, the Government believes in quantity rather than quality. The last option […]
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With each visit comes home turns to the subject and John again tells what he knows so far. In some conversations sharing the fact that there are 2 000 medical centers in the country, but only 1 200 achieved an average mark of quality. Knows that it has met with Ivonne Martinez, director of quality […]
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Sso far this year there have been 338 cases of dengue in the state. The state Health Department reported that following the rains caused by Hurricane Carlotta was increased and strengthened surveillance measures to prevent mosquito breeding sites to register transmits dengue. The Director of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the State Health Secretariat, Silva […]
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Second highest number of cases for a parasitic disease worldwide after Malaria / Close to 200 million / Brazil, Saint Lucia, Suriname and Venezuela The vaccine was developed by researchers from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), a medical research center under the Ministry of Health, sources with the state in a press conference in Rio […]
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A total of 19 people have died so far this year in Ecuador for dengue, a disease that has affected nearly 10,000 people, said the Ministry of Public Health. The highest number of dengue deaths recorded in the coastal province of Manabi (8), followed by the Guayas (5) and Santo Domingo (2), while Los Ríos, […]
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Health officials reported a total of four recent dengue cases in the municipality of Altamira, Tamaulipas. There are a total of 26 residents that have been infected by this virus in the south part of the municipality. Ministry Health Officials are now in an alert status. Read Article
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One study showed that the incidence of insomnia affects up to 35 percent in the general population. In Mexico, the general public does not consider insomnia as a disease, because the urban environment or adapting to new lifestyles favor this condition goes unnoticed. However, studies have reported an incidence of the disease up to 36 […]
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Each year, more than 6,000 kidney patients attending medical appointments. The head of Nephrology, Dialysis and Kidney Transplant Hospital Obrero in La Paz, Marlon Jaimes, said a total of 52 patients waiting for a kidney transplant or kidney graft to improve their quality of life. Read Article
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The quartermaster of Pichincha, along with members of the Police and the health area, yesterday closed two health centers of Quito, one in the north and one in the south. In the first, the authorities found facilities and equipment to perform surgery, when these interventions are only authorized to the clinics. Read Article
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In the last four months, the population affected by the lack of water and food, rose from 35 thousand to 55 thousand in a total of 750 thousand Durango communities, places where malnutrition also increased by 400 percent and children enter adults. This was announced by the director of the State DIF in Durango, Marco […]
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The Ministry of Health of El Salvador today confirmed the first death from swine flu so far this year and reported that there have been nearly one hundred cases, but reaffirmed that the disease has not yet reached levels epidemic. The fatality is a child of one year and a half old native of La […]
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The number of people infected with influenza virus A H1N1 was increased to 96. According to data from the Ministry of Health (Minsal) in the most recent week confirmed 21 new cases. 48 percent of patients detected recently are under ten years, said David Rodriguez, head of the Statistics and Information Minsal. “Most of these […]
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