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Immunization Strategies Improved For Dengue Fever In Thailand

(MedicalNewsToday) Using a unique data set spanning 40 years of dengue fever incidence in Thailand, an international team led by biostatistician Nicholas Reich at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has for the first time estimated from data that after an initial dengue infection, a person is protected from infection with other strains for between one Read More »

July 8, 2013
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, and International
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Cuba’s Secretive Public Health Policies Criticized

(HavanaTimes) An article titled “Secret Epidemics: Cuba’s Public Health Ethics” (“El silencio epidemiológico y la ética de la Salud Pública cubana”) appears in the most recent issue of Cuba’s quarterly Public Health Journal (Revista Cubana de Salud Publica). Written by National School of Medicine physician Luis Suarez Rosas, the work criticizes the Cuban government’s information Read More »

July 8, 2013
| Filed under North America, South America, and International
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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update

(WHO) The Ministry of Health (MoH) in Saudi Arabia has announced one additional laboratory-confirmed case and two deaths in previously confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in Saudi Arabia. The new case is a 56 year-old female from Hafr Al- Batin city, North-eastern region. She is a health care worker with Read More »

July 8, 2013
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, and International
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WHO To Convene MERS Virus Panel

(TheScientist) The World Health Organization (WHO) will convene an emergency committee on Tuesday (July 9) to determine whether a new coronavirus that is responsible for 42 deaths, mostly in Saudi Arabia, constitutes a “public health emergency of international concern,” according to Keiji Fukuda, the WHO’s assistant director-general for Health and Environment, who announced the plan Read More »

July 8, 2013
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, and International
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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update

(WHO) The Ministry of Health (MoH) in Saudi Arabia has announced two additional laboratory-confirmed cases and two deaths in previously confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in Saudi Arabia. The new cases are a 69 year-old male and a 66 year-old male from Riyadh. Both were admitted to hospital on the Read More »