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Jamaica Ministry of Health launches surveillance manual, conducts surveillance workshop

Israel wrote 4 days ago: Jamaica The Jamaica Ministry of Health, November 03, 2009, launched a surveillance manual as a guide … more →

Tags: malaria, Environmental health, health, News, Diseases, Vector-borne diseases, Mosquito control, Aedes aegypti mosquito, Dengue fever

Guyana Dengue doubled up this year

Israel wrote 1 week ago: Guyana At 1000 new Dengue cases, Guyana has recorded twice as many cases this year as the last up to … more →

Tags: Environmental health, health, Diseases, Vector-borne diseases, Vectors of disease, Mosquito control, Caribbean, Dengue in Guyana, Aedes aegypti

The DR/Haiti to X Malaria out

Israel wrote 2 weeks ago: Hispaniola President Leonel Fernandez of the Dominican Republic and Haitian President Rene Preval ar … more →

Tags: Aedes aegypti mosquito, Caribbean, Culex mosquito, Environmental health, health, Malaria in Dominican Republic, Malaria in Haiti, Mosquito control, Vector-borne diseases

Vox pop Dengue: They're back...

Israel wrote 2 weeks ago: British Virgin Islands by Freeman Rogers, Editor, The BVI Beacon Well, okay, the mosquitoes never re … more →

Tags: Aedes aegypti, British Virgin Islands, BVI, Caribbean, Dengue fever, Diseases, Environmental health, health, malaria

New NIDs plan afoot to tackle parasitic infectious diseases

Israel wrote 4 weeks ago: There is an initiative afoot in Latin America and the Caribbean to tackle the problem of parasitic i … more →

Tags: Caribbean, Culex mosquito, Diseases, Environmental health, health, Mosquito control, PAHO, Vector-borne diseases, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Belize PM Barrow too?

Israel wrote 1 month ago: Belize Yet another head of state from the wider Caribbean has been smitten by Dengue Fever.  First t … more →

Tags: Caribbean, Dengue fever, Dengue in Belize, Diseases, Environmental health, health, malaria, Mosquito, Mosquito control

Dengue plays second fiddle to AH1N1 (updated)

Israel wrote 1 month ago: Puerto Rico updated on October 12  2009 The AH1N1 (Swine Flu) has, in the past year, been receiving … more →

Tags: Aedes aegypti mosquito, Caribbean, health, Mosquito control, Vector-borne diseases, Dengue, Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, Dr. Martha Patricia Cano, Lorenzo González

Sanofi Dengue vaccine trials take a step forward

Israel wrote 2 months ago: Sanofi Pasteur has taken yet another step forward in the development of its investigational, novel t … more →

Tags: Aedes aegypti, Aedes aegypti mosquito, Caribbean, Dengue vaccines, Diseases, Environmental health, health, Mosquito, Mosquito control

National Surveillance Unit of Trinidad says Dengue on "Steady Decline"

Israel wrote 2 months ago: Trinidad The National Surveillance Unit of the Trinidad Health Ministry revealed in an official pres … more →

Tags: Aedes aegypti, Aedes aegypti mosquito, Caribbean, Dengue fever, Diseases, Environmental health, health, Mosquito control, Vector-borne diseases

Cuba lends Sri Lanka a helping hand with Dengue outbreak

Israel wrote 2 months ago: Cuba Two Cuban epidemiologists were in Sri Lanka in mid-August to lend a helping hand to the Health … more →

Tags: Environmental health, health, Diseases, Vector-borne diseases, Mosquito control, Caribbean, Aedes aegypti mosquito, Dengue fever, Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis

New budget cuts into mosquito control in Cayman Islands

Israel wrote 2 months ago: Cayman Islands There seems to be some truth to the story that spending cuts initiated by the Cayman … more →

Tags: Environmental health, health, News, Diseases, Vector-borne diseases, Mosquito control, Caribbean, Aedes aegypti, Aedes aegypti mosquito

Mosquito Attractant (MMA) Trap looking up {new Trapper Comment}5 comments

Israel wrote 2 months ago: Malaysia The MMA (Mosquito Attractant) trap, now under development at the University of Malaysia, ha … more →

Tags: Environmental health, health, Diseases, Vector-borne diseases, Mosquito control, Aedes aegypti mosquito, Personal, Dengue fever, Malaysia Dengue

Sanofi Pasteur to complete development of Dengue vaccine in new facility

Israel wrote 2 months ago: The sanofi-aventis group is at it again.  The Group’s vaccine division, Sanofi Pasteur, has in … more →

Tags: Environmental health, health, Diseases, Vector-borne diseases, Mosquito control, Caribbean, Aedes aegypti mosquito, Dengue fever, Dengue vaccines

Dengue/Leptospirosis, Lepto/Dengue?

Israel wrote 4 months ago: Guyana A 31 year old Guyanese woman died suddenly at the Georgetown Public Hospital on July 9, 2009 … more →

Tags: Environmental health, health, Diseases, Vector-borne diseases, Vectors of disease, Mosquito control, Caribbean, Dengue fever, malaria

Dengue epidemic in Guyana; Malaria uncontrollable

Israel wrote 4 months ago: Guyana Minister of Health, Leslie Ramsammy, citing official data finalized up to the end of May, 200 … more →

Tags: malaria, Environmental health, health, Diseases, Vector-borne diseases, Mosquito control, Caribbean, Aedes aegypti mosquito, Personal

Predicting Dengue1 comment

Israel wrote 5 months ago: A new method of predicting DF and DHF epidemics A new method of predicting Dengue Fever and Dengue H … more →

Tags: Aedes aegypti, Caribbean, Dengue Fever in Costa Rica, Dengue in Trinidad and Tobago, Diseases, Environmental health, Global Warming, health, Life

Dengue in the Americas currently (update 3, June 18)2 comments

Israel wrote 5 months ago: Dengue outbreaks have now been reported in Argentina, Bolivia and in Bahai, Brazil, Paraguay and Mex … more →

Tags: Aedes aegypti, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Diseases, Environmental health, health, Mosquito, Dengue

'Earth and Sky' Pod Blog: Malaria Vaccine Research Aided By Tests On Mice

Israel wrote 7 months ago: … more →

Tags: malaria, Environmental health, health, Life, Diseases, Mosquito control, Caribbean, Anopheles Mosquito, Malaria vaccines

BVI EHD embarks on new educational thrust

Israel wrote 7 months ago: Virgin Islands (Br.) BVI EHD embarks on new educational thrust Government Information Service Reside … more →

Tags: British Virgin Islands, BVI, Caribbean, Environmental health, health, Tortola, Carnel Smith, EHD, Environmental Health Officer


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