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Haiti mobilizes urgent scale up in response to cholera outbreak

Published on: March 24, 2023
16:21

By: Pavel López Lazo

Port-au-Prince, Mar 24 (Prensa Latina) Haitian health authorities on Friday mobilized a rapid scale up to curb cholera spread across the country.

Chile confirms fresh bird flu outbreak in industrial plant

Published on: March 21, 2023
18:05

By: Pavel López Lazo

Santiago de Chile, Mar 21 (Prensa Latina) Chile´s Agriculture Minister Esteban Valenzuela on Tuesday confirmed the second case of bird flu in an egg-producing company based in the southern region of Maule.

Dominican Rep. alerts for new Chikungunya outbreak in the region

Published on: March 1, 2023
17:08

By: Pavel López Lazo

Santo Domingo, Mar 1 (Prensa Latina) Dominican authorities on Wednesday issued an epidemiological alert for new chikungunya cases reported in regional nations, leading the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to warn of the imminent arrival of the disease.

Paraguay on alert due to “imminent risk” of bird flu outbreak

Published on: February 21, 2023
19:00

By: Pavel López Lazo

Asunción, Feb 21 (Prensa Latina) Paraguay´s public and private institutions are on maximum alert in view of imminent risk of bird flu virus in the country. Yet no contagion has been reported, the government declared Tuesday.

Mpox is still considered a public health emergency – WHO

Published on: February 15, 2023
16:55

By: Pavel López Lazo

Geneva, Feb 15 (Prensa Latina) WHO warned Wednesday that despite progress made for global response to the multinational mpox outbreak, it is still a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated.

Concern over outbreak of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea

Published on: February 15, 2023
00:15

By: Ileana Ferrer Fonte

Malabo, Feb 15 (Prensa Latina) An outbreak of Marburg virus in an Equatorial Guinean district has killed nine people so far, according to official figures, and has activated the alarm in the World Health Organization (WHO).

China updates WHO on nearly 60,000 Covid-19 death toll

Published on: January 15, 2023
08:29

By: Pavel López Lazo

Beijing, Jan 15 (Prensa Latina) China on Sunday updated the World Health Organization (WHO) on present Covid-19 outbreak in the Asian nation after confirming as many as 59,938 deaths since December 2022, local press reported.

Uganda announces the end of the Ebola outbreak

Published on: January 11, 2023
12:48

By: Alina Ramos Martin

Kampala, Jan 11 (Prensa Latina) Ugandan health authorities announced the end of the Ebola outbreak that for four months devastated parts of the country, including this capital, and caused the death of 55 infected people, according to official statistics.

SENSA activates national emergency plan to fight off bird flu

Published on: January 6, 2023
16:12

By: Pavel López Lazo

Tegucigalpa, Jan 6 (Prensa Latina) Honduras´s National Service of Health and Food Safety (SENASA) on Friday activated its national emergency plan ahead of a fresh bird flu outbreak nationwide.

Cholera outbreak death toll rises to 51 in Nigeria

Published on: December 20, 2022
13:47

By: Ana Luisa Brown

Abuja, Dec 20 (Prensa Latina) The death toll in the area of Abi, in the southern Nigerian state of Cross River, rose to 51 on Tuesday as a result of a cholera outbreak, a government source reported.

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