He eats raw fish contaminated with a deadly bacteria and his life is dramatically changed forever. This is the story of Laura Barajas, a 40-year-old mother from San Jose, California, who had all four of her limbs amputated after eating tilapia contaminated with a deadly bacteria. Tilapia, native to tropical waters, is one of the […]
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Brain-eating amoeba in tap water: 1 dead
Occurs in Charlotte County on Florida’s southwest coast: A man has died from possible consumption of tap water containing scientifically “brain-eating” microscopic amoeba. Naegleria fowleri. State Department of Health reported. The identity of the victim has not been released. Health officials said in a statement that the deceased was infected with the parasite “probably as […]
Covid-19 cases continue to fall in China; 35 thousand were registered
The number of new Covid-19 infections in China fell this Thursday after the National Health Commission today reported 34,980 cases detected the day before, of which 30,539 (87%) are asymptomatic by the institution’s standards. Of the 4,278 symptomatic cases, the vast majority (4,233) occurred due to local transmission within the borders of the country, with […]
US first lady Jill Biden tested positive for Covid-19
Jill Bidenthe first lady of the United States, tested positive for COVID-19has mild symptoms of the illness and will be isolated for five days, Communications Director Elizabeth Alexander said in a statement. As Alexander explained, the wife of Joe Biden He gave a negative test yesterday, although he started having symptoms in the afternoon. An […]
WHO declares international emergency over monkey pox outbreak
The World Health Organisation (WHO) this Saturday declared an international emergency over the current monkeypox outbreak, after more than 16,000 cases (five of them fatal) have been declared in 75 countries, many in Europe, where the disease was not endemic. The decision was announced at a press conference by the WHO Director General, Tedros Adhanom […]
WHO warns global infections have doubled in six weeks
The number of Covid-19 cases has doubled worldwide in the past month and a half, from about three million a week to six million today, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned this Wednesday. “An increase in the number of infections means there could be more hospitalizations and more deaths in the coming […]
WHO to examine whether to declare an international monkeypox emergency
Experts from the World Health Organisation will meet for the second time 21 July to analyze whether it is necessary to declare an international emergency because of the outbreak of monkeypoxwhen the cases are already approaching the 10,000 mark. WHO Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Recently, this second Emergency Committee meeting was expected to take […]
Global Covid-19 cases rise for fifth consecutive week
Between July 4 and 10, the world registered at least 5.7 million cases of Covid-19, a weekly increase of 6% and the fifth in a row, according to the epidemiological report published today by the World Health Organization (WHO). 100 since the start of the pandemic. Europe, with 2.8 million cases last week (4% more […]
WHO maintains international state of emergency for covid despite drop in deaths
The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced today that it has declared the international emergency due to the pandemic of COVID-19, in force since January 2020, despite the continued decline in deaths from this disease, which are no longer associated with a specific increase in infections. Despite this, the Emergency Committee for the pandemicmeeting every three […]
Global monkeypox cases approach 10,000 . mark
The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported on Tuesday that about 3,000 additional cases of monkeypox in the world, bringing the total number of cases to 9,200 confirmed cases in laboratories in 63 countries. The number of deaths from this outbreak did not rise this weekend and remains at three, but the virus has spread to […]