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Yellow Fever is Back
By Naky Soto -
November 19, 2019
...Yellow Fever Reappeared
The Venezuelan Public Health Society and the Let’s Defend The National Epidemiology Network issued an alert after a case of yellow fever was confirmed in the state of Bol?var, after 14 years without the disease. The Health Ministry hasn’t published information about the case or issued an alert, but Venezuela must formally report it to international institutions, due to the risk to a population that isn’t vaccinated, having the vector (mosquitoes) in all of the territory (increasing the odds of an epidemic) and the poor access to an epidemiologic report that chavismo just doesn’t want to publish. Doctor Julio Castro wrote about the case for Prodavinci...
Yellow Fever is Back
By Naky Soto -
November 19, 2019
...Yellow Fever Reappeared
The Venezuelan Public Health Society and the Let’s Defend The National Epidemiology Network issued an alert after a case of yellow fever was confirmed in the state of Bol?var, after 14 years without the disease. The Health Ministry hasn’t published information about the case or issued an alert, but Venezuela must formally report it to international institutions, due to the risk to a population that isn’t vaccinated, having the vector (mosquitoes) in all of the territory (increasing the odds of an epidemic) and the poor access to an epidemiologic report that chavismo just doesn’t want to publish. Doctor Julio Castro wrote about the case for Prodavinci...
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