Tag: malaria

• Tuesday, April 12th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  Paraguayan health experts warn of risk of malaria

  

  Paraguay's Health Ministry has advised that anyone returning from a country with malaria transmission and who presents fever, chills, headache, or any other discomfort should consult a physician. The disease is potentially fatal if not diagnosed and treated in time.

• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 09:09 UTC

  STF ruling compels Bolsonaro gov't to account for malnourished Yanomami children

  

  Brazil's Federal Supreme Court (STF) Justice Luís Roberto Barroso Wednesday gave President Jair Bolsonaro's administration five days to rectify the situation of malnourished Yanomami deprived of medical care, portrayed in a TV show over this past weekend.

• Monday, November 8th 2021 - 09:11 UTC

  Brazilian scientists turn down medals in repudiation of President Bolsonaro

  

  A group of Brazilian scientists who were awarded the National Order of Scientific Merit have decided to turn down the honours after President Jair Bolsonaro chose to remove one of them from the list.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Africa's cyclone Idai batters 1.7 million people: now outbreaks of cholera and malaria

  

  A week after the flooded Mozambican port of Beira was hit by Cyclone Idai, cases of cholera have been recorded, a humanitarian aid group said on Friday. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned of the risk of other outbreaks, already noting an increase in malaria.

• Monday, June 11th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

  WHO certifies Paraguay malaria-free

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) certified Paraguay as having eliminated malaria, the first country in the Americas to be granted this status since Cuba in 1973. “It gives me great pleasure today to certify that Paraguay is officially free of malaria,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director General, in a recorded statement.

• Friday, March 7th 2014 - 03:08 UTC

  UK health authorities warn travelers to Brazil World Cup about tropical diseases

  

  UK's Public Health England (PHE) and National Travel Health Network and Center (NaTHNaC9 have produced a factsheet for football fans going to Brazil for the FIFA Football World Cup from 12 June to 13 July 2014 with information on how to stay healthy and keep safe.

• Monday, March 18th 2013 - 20:10 UTC

  WHO warns of spread of TB strains multiple-drugs resistance; calls for funds

  

  The World Health Organization and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria said on Monday that strains of tuberculosis with resistance to multiple drugs could spread widely and highlight an annual need of at least 1.6 billion dollars in international funding for treatment and prevention of the disease.

• Wednesday, December 19th 2012 - 06:27 UTC

  Dengue alert in Paraguay; SMS awareness campaign to fight mosquitoes

  

  Paraguay’s Health Ministry announced it will appeal to SMS messages as part of the awareness campaign to help prevent the mosquito transmitted dengue disease which this year has already caused 70 deaths and thousands of infections.