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A team from the United States CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has been in the country for a few days. These are epidemiologists from the Division of Vector Diseases...
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Uruguay officials report the country’s first highly pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5) virus case in a black-necked swan in Laguna Garzón, between the departments of Maldonado...
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My guest today writes, “In many places around the world, malaria is closely linked to illegal gold mining” in a recent article in the BMC blog, BugBitten titled, “A story of...
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For the first ten months of 2021, French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America, have reported five confirmed measles cases.
Of the 5 confirmed cases reported between...
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In 2021 to date, three countries in the Region of the Americas (Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela) have reported confirmed yellow fever cases.
In Brazil, from July 2020...
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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is reporting a mixed bag when it comes to the COVID-19 trajectory in the Americas. According to PAHO Director Carissa F....
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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) announced Friday that more than one million people in Latin America and the Caribbean have died from COVID-19, reaching...
The Carter Center and The Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE) announced an exciting new partnership to support the Carter Center’s innovative disease elimination efforts in the Americas.
GLIDE,...
In late 2018 into early 2019, an outbreak of a form of hantavirus called Andes virus, swept through a small town in Argentina infecting 34 and killing 11.
Researchers led by a team from the U.S. Army Medical...
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“Super-spreader” events and extensive person-to-person contact propelled an outbreak of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in a small village in Argentina from 2018-2019,...
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