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Breaking News Sun, 15 Jul 2012
Patients with cholera lie on mats at the crowded St. Nicholas Hospital in Saint Marc, in the Artibonite region of Haiti, where Cuban doctors and doctors with Mdecins Sans Frontires are treating those infected.
(photo: UN / Sophia Paris)
No new cholera deaths in Cuba
Dayton Daily News
| HAVANA — Cuba's Health Ministry on Saturday reported 158 cases of cholera, nearly three times as many as previously disclosed, but said there were no new deaths and the outbreak appears to have been contained and on the wane. | The ministry said Intensive efforts to quarantine those infected...
File - A Cuban doctor assists a patient, who suffers from cholera symptoms, at the medical center of L'Estere, north of Port au Prince where the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is working to contain the cholera outbreak, 31 October, 2011.
(photo: UN / Marco Dormino)
Cuba Cholera Outbreak: Authorities Scrambles To Fight Rare Outbreak
Huffington Post
| HAVANA — Authorities in eastern Cuba are in full prevention mode to contain a rare cholera outbreak amid fears that it may have spread to the capital, distributing chlorine and water purification drops and quarantining hospital patients with diarrhea until they are checked for the disease. |...
Cholera declared an epidemic in Bicol, Philippines
The Examiner
Related topics | PhilippinesCholera Epidemic | Advertisement | Cases of the dangerous, gastrointestinal disease, cholera have been seen at epidemic levels in the Bicol Region according to Department of Health (DOH) reports. The surge of cholera in th...
HOG HUNT! - 4 of 5 Sarasota county commissioners turn deaf ear to speakers
The Examiner
| Advertisement | (This is Part I of a series) | VENICE, FL - On July 10, 2012, four of the five members of the Sarasota Board of County Commissioners voted to allow feral hog hunts on public land. It was one of those “right church/wrong pew” mom...
News briefs
Tulsa World
A gang of about a dozen armed people stormed into a church youth camp-out near Mexico City and went on an hours-long rampage of beatings, robberies and rape, authorities said Saturday. | Seven girls were raped during the Friday attack and several cam...
Cholera outbreak in Cuba after 130 years
Newstrack India
| Tweet | Havana, July 15 (IANS) In the first cholera outbreak reported in 130 years, Cuba's health ministry confirmed 158 cases of the disease hitting the Caribbean island nation this month, according to Xinhua news agency. | The ministry first repo...
World briefs (7/15/12)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Cuba is mum about cholera | HAVANA -- Cuba's government has given little information about a rare outbreak of cholera, fueling speculation that the epidemic may be worse than initially reported earlier this month. | The World Health Organization...
National and world briefs for July 15
Richmond Times Dispatch
TUNIS, Tunisia -- | GE signs deal with Myanmar hospitals | Just days after the United States eased key sanctions on Myanmar, General Electric became the first American company to invest in the former pariah state, signing deals Saturday to provide me...
No new cholera deaths in Cuba
STL Today
| Cuba's Health Ministry on Saturday reported 158 cases of cholera, nearly three times as many as previously disclosed, but said there were no new deaths and the outbreak appears to have been contained and on the wane. | The ministry said Intensive e...
No new cholera deaths in Cuba
WPXI
| Cuba's Health Ministry on Saturday reported 158 cases of cholera, nearly three times as many as previously disclosed, but said there were no new deaths and the outbreak appears to have been contained and on the wane. | The ministry said Intensive e...
What Can Architecture Do for Your Health?
Huffington Post
| By Irina Vinnitskaya | Click here for the original article at ArchDaily. Copyright NYC DDC | In an effort to make New York City’s built environment “more livable and hospitable” the Department of Design and Construction (DDC), Health and Ment...
No new cholera deaths in Cuba
The Wichita Eagle
| HAVANA — Cuba's Health Ministry on Saturday reported 158 cases of cholera, nearly three times as many as previously disclosed, but said there were no new deaths and the outbreak appears to have been contained and on the wane. | The ministry s...
No new cholera deaths in Cuba
The Tribune San Luis Obispo
| Cuba's Health Ministry on Saturday reported 158 cases of cholera, nearly three times as many as previously disclosed, but said there were no new deaths and the outbreak appears to have been contained and on the wane. | The ministry said Intensive e...
Malaria
Practice of spraying insecticides on the interior walls of homes in malaria affected areas.
(photo: WN / Priya Dashini)
Insecticide sprays now a tool against malaria
The Times Of India
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetInsecticide sprays now a tool against malaria (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images) A pair of provocative studies has thrown light into the intense ground war now underway against malaria. | In one review, researchers offer new evidence supporting indoor insecticide spraying as a way to dramatically reduce malaria deaths. In an...



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