By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Strategic actions to combat the malaria-transmitting mosquito are being intensified in the Yanomami Special Indigenous Sanitary District (DSEI). The district drew...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The number of COVID-19 cases in Brazil increased by nearly 34,000 putting the total confirmed case count in the country to 1,402,041. This includes 790,040 people...

Survival International, an organization that champions tribal peoples around the world, reported recently on a measles epidemic that has hit Amazon tribe, Yanomami, on the Brazil-Venezuela border. To...

An international coalition working with countries in the Americas are pushing for the final elimination of onchocerciasis, or river blindness in the Western hemisphere. “Today, four of the six river...