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On 28 August 2020, the National IHR Focal Point of Chad notified WHO of an outbreak of chikungunya in Abéché, eastern Chad.

Three months after the declaration of the eleventh Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the number of confirmed cases continues to increase, and the geographic spread of the outbreak continues to expand. As of 1 September 2020, 110 cases (104 confirmed and six probable) including 47 deaths (case […]

On 9 August 2020, the Federal Ministry of Health, Sudan notified WHO of the detection of a

On 23 July 2020, the France IHR National Focal Point reported a confirmed autochthonous (locally acquired) case of yellow fever in a 14-year-old male in French Guiana. On 17 July 2020, the case was laboratory confirmed at the French National Reference Centre for arboviruses, Institute Pasteur Cayenne. The case-patient had severe disability, and developed dengue-like […]

WHO: Zika virus classification tables

They are tiny animals that live near or inside human dwellings where contact with people is high. Every few days, they lay 100-150 eggs which develop into adults in about a week. They are mosquitoes. The adult females feed on people’s blood, several times during the day.

Their study titled, “How super-spreader cities, highways, hospital bed availability, and dengue fever influenced the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil,” was released pre-peer review on the preprint medRxiv* early this week.

For the past month, record-breaking wildfires have torched millions of acres from the Mexican border well into Canada, their smoke producing air so toxic that millions of people remained indoors for days on end while many visited hospitals because of respiratory distress.

A new study demonstrates for the first time that subseasonal rainfall and temperature forecasts can be used to predict outbreaks of dengue fever by estimating mosquito abundance.

Mosquitoes are known to be vectors or bearers of several viral and protozoal infections such as dengue, Zika, yellow fever, Chikungunya, and malaria. These infections are known to infect and even kill millions around the world each year. In order to tackle this vector-borne menace, researchers have genetically engineered mosquitoes that could replace the infection […]

Tras advertir que los casos de coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) se han duplicado en una semana en la región de las Américas, la Directora de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud OPS), Carissa F. Etienne, llamó a los países a aplicar medidas para proteger a los trabajadores de la salud para asegurar que tengan acceso a […]

La pandemia de la COVID-19 ha resaltado de manera conmovedora el papel fundamental que desempeñan las enfermeras, enfermeros y otros trabajadores de la salud para proteger la salud de las personas y salvar vidas. El nuevo informe titulado Situación de la enfermería en el mundo 2020 solicita una mayor inversión en educación, mejora en las […]

La FIFA ha aunado fuerzas con la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) y la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) para apoyar la campaña #BeActive, que se ha lanzado con motivo del Día Internacional del Deporte para el Desarrollo y la Paz de la ONU. Con #HealthyAtHome se anima a que la gente se […]

La directora de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud, Carissa F. Etienne, pidió hoy la colaboración del sector privado con los países de América Latina y el Caribe “en respuesta al tsunami de los casos de COVID19 que enfrentaremos”.