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Jamaica: Certain health centers extend hours in response to dengue outbreak

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the dengue outbreak in Jamaica, Director of Health Services Planning and Integration, Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dr. Nadine Williams announced today that all...

Costa Rica: Health ministry monitors malaria cases in the southwest

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Costa Rican health ministry carried out field interventions this past weekend to contain the malaria outbreak in the Bahía Ballena district in Osa, after the detection of eight...

Dengue outbreak declared in Jamaica

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Ministry of Health & Wellness has declared an outbreak of Dengue for Jamaica. The outbreak comes as the Ministry’s National Surveillance Unit advised that Jamaica has surpassed...

Paraguay reports an increase in dengue in eight health regions, Chikungunya continues decline

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 In the latest report from the Paraguay Ministry of Health, it shows that in the last three weeks 118 cases of dengue have been reported in the country. 90% of the cases come from...

Bolivia: 14 hantavirus cases confirmed this year

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Hantavirus has already caused 14 infections this year in four departments, according to data from the Ministry of Health . “In the 2023 administration there are 14 positive cases...

Paraguay reports 9 confirmed hantavirus cases, 3 deaths in 2023 to date

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Paraguay health officials report nine cases and three deaths have been confirmed due to hantavirus year to date. All of them registered in the three departments of the Paraguayan...

Argentina reports decline in dengue

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 In 2023, through the end of August, 130,116 dengue fever cases were registered in Argentina, of which 121,528 are locally transmitted, 1,500 are travel associated and 7,088 are under...

Brazil: More than 2,000 dengue cases in the city of Blumenau this year

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Blumenau City Hall, through the Health Promotion Secretariat (Semus), publishes the Dengue Bulletin for September. The city records 138 new outbreaks and 65 cases of the disease. To...

Argentina: H5 avian influenza detected for the first time in elephant seals

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The National Agri-Food Health and Quality Service (Senasa)  confirmed new cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5 detected in marine mammals in Comodoro Rivadavia,...

Guatemala declares national emergency due to dengue, Cases up 152 percent this year

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Guatemala government declared a national emergency on Thursday due to a dengue outbreak in the country this year. Health Minister Francisco Coma said, “We have made the decision...