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Loading ...Dengue on the Rise Again / Dengue Avance de Nuevo
Friday, October 12th, 2007If you’ve ever had dengue before, you can testify to its agony. My wife got it from a mosquito while we lived in Santo Domingo in the late 1990s, and for a week she experienced fiery pain in every joint and muscle, a steady headache and fever that will not respond to any medicines. She […]
Malaria in the Americas: Still Formidible / Malaria en las Américas: formidable todavia
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007The short status report to PAHO's governing body, the Pan American Sanitary Conference, mentioned in the releases reproduced below, is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. As the report shows, fighting malaria in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) remains a formidable challenge. While there has been a decrease in reported cases overall for LAC, […]