The US government on Friday declared a public health emergency in Puerto Rico as a result of a Zika epidemic. The declaration allows the US Department of Health and Human Services to award grants, ...
Puerto Rico has been particularly badly affected, and in March 2024 the island declared its first Dengue epidemic since 2012. Although Dengue fever does not cause serious illness in everyone it ...
Sitting at his home in The Bronx, Brian Camilo, 21, watched live on television as former U.S. President Donald J. Trump threw ...
Climate change is expanding the habitat of the mosquitoes that carry the disease, allowing them to spread further north.
Similarly, Puerto Rico, a place where dengue outbreaks can occur in the summer and fall, declared a public health ... In recent years, the epidemic has spread to parts of southern Brazil and ...
Some politicians are demanding that Gov. Pedro Pierluisi declare a state of emergency. “The people of Santa Isabel, Coamo and ...
In 1990, the figure was just 0.4 million. “The analysis underscores a concerning reality for India—the looming threat of an obesity epidemic. The massive rise in obesity levels among kids ...
“Honduras has entered the epidemic zone due to the increase in cases in all departments of the country, as well as the number of patient admissions in all hospitals in the country due to this ...