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    Chile sends SOS to WHO after massive intoxication in Valparaíso region

    September 2, 2018 Ali Dashti Comments Off on Chile sends SOS to WHO after massive intoxication in Valparaíso region

    SANTIAGO – Chile’s Health Ministry has asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to help install a monitoring system that identifies and gauges industrial emissions in the heavily contaminated Quintero and Puchuncaví regions. “We are prepared […]

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    Brazil kicks off world’s largest vaccination campaign against yellow fever

    January 26, 2018 Web Editor 0

    RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil has launched a mass immunization campaign that will deliver fractional doses of yellow fever vaccine to residents of 69 municipalities in the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. […]

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    Bachelet lands a new job at UN before leaving La Moneda

    January 12, 2018 Web Editor 0

    SANTIAGO – Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet has agreed to chair the World Health Organization’s Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health after she will be succeeded by Sebastian Piñera in March. Bachelet, who led UN […]

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    Obesity, a key driver of diabetes

    November 17, 2017 Web Editor 0

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – Obesity is one of the main risk factors for diabetes. In the Americas, the percentage of adults who are obese is more than twice the world average, with more women affected than […]

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    World running out of antibiotics, WHO report confirms

    September 21, 2017 Web Editor 0

    GENEVA, Switzerland – A World Health Organization (WHO) report – Antibacterial agents in clinical development – shows a serious lack of new antibiotics under development to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. Most of […]

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    Chile alarmed by increase in HIV/AIDS cases

    August 10, 2017 Web Editor 0

    SANTIAGO – The Chilean government has taken several actions to neutralize the incidence of HIV-positive cases, which scaled up 66 percent in the last six years. Health Minister Carmen Castillo has promised a greater control […]

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    WHO says Bolivia an example for world in health

    August 9, 2017 Web Editor 0

    LA PAZ – Bolivia is today an example for the world in terms of health due to the progress President Evo Morales has reached in this sphere, officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) have […]

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    Chilean salmon industry reduces total use of antibiotics

    June 21, 2017 Web Editor 0

    SANTIAGO – Due to the “2016 Report on Antimicrobial use in National Salmon Farming” published by Sernapesca, marine conservation organization Oceana recognized that the industry did diminish the use of antibiotics, however, this figure is […]

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    Zika virus reaches India, WHO confirms 3 cases in Gujarat

    May 29, 2017 Web Editor 0

    NEW DELHI – Zika virus disease has reached India, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirming first three cases in wetsern state of Gujarat. The WHO endorsed the findings of laboratory tests conducted in the […]

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    Guatemala: Thousands Face Needless End-of-Life Suffering

    May 20, 2017 Web Editor 0

    GUATEMALA CITY – Thousands of patients with advanced illnesses in Guatemala suffer unnecessarily from severe pain because they cannot get appropriate pain medications, Human Rights Watch said in a latest report. The 62-page report, “‘Punishing […]

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