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Venezuela: 3 diphtheria cases confirmed in Bolívar State

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The president of the Bolívar State Public Health Institute, Manuel Maurera, confirmed this Thursday, March 9, that three cases of diphtheria have been confirmed in that entity, specifically...

Venezuela: Histoplasmosis outbreak linked to Las Tejerías avalanche

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Institute of Tropical Medicine of the Central University of Venezuela (IMT – UCV) detected on December 5, at least 20 cases of histoplasmosis, a lung infection caused by...

Venezuela reports its first case of monkeypox

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Venezuela detected its first case of monkeypox in a traveler from Spain, the Ministry of Health reported in a statement on Sunday. “Through the epidemiological fence, the first...

Venezuela: Dozens of cutaneous leishmaniasis cases reported in Anzoátegui State

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 At least 66 cutaneous leishmaniasis cases have been reported in Sabana de Uchire, Bruzual municipality of Anzoátegui in northeastern Venezuela, according to an El Pitazo report. It...

Venezuela reports nearly 2800 malaria cases early in 2022, Most cases reported where mining is reported

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that Venezuela registered 2,796 cases of malaria during the first two epidemiological weeks of 2022,...

Venezuela: Malaria cases persist in Falcón

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Falcón State, in northern Venezuela continues to report malaria cases. In the last quarter of 2021, 380 indigenous cases were registered, and so far in 2022, 134 have been recorded...

Malaria and illegal gold mining

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 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...

Venezuela: 31 prisoners die from tuberculosis since April, according to NGO research

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The NGO from Caracas, Una Ventana a la Libertad (UVL) reports between April and September 2021, at least 37 inmates from 119 prisons, or Preventive Detention Centers (CDP) in...

Yellow fever in Venezuela: WHO details

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 In a follow-up on a previous report on yellow fever cases in Venezuela, the World Health Organization (WHO) published some additional details in a Disease Outbreak News release...

Yellow fever in the Americas: Brazil, Peru and Venezuela

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews 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...