All posts tagged "health"

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  EPA documents expose negligence regarding Puerto Rico’s dump crisis

  P.R.'s dumps "present an imminent threat to human health and the environment"

  • Posted August 23, 2016
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  To reverse damage of sitting, take a brisk, hour-long walk

  Sitting all day as dangerous as being obese or smoking, scientists found

  • Posted July 30, 2016
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  P.R. Governor Says There is no Date set for Fumigation

  Governor Alejandro García Padilla said today that there is no date to carry out aerial fumigation with the chemical known as Naled for combat the zika virus on the island and that even though the U.S. Environmental...

  • Posted July 7, 2016
• WIC Program Fumigates its 89 Centers in Puerto Rico

  The executive director of Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) in Puerto Rico, Dana Miró Medina, said today that 89 of the program’s center and 2,761 houses of pregnant women throughout the island...

  • Posted July 7, 2016
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• Spanish Gold Medalist Believes She Contracted Zika In Rio

  SAO PAULO – Spanish Olympic gold medalist Marina Alabau says she got Zika while training in Brazil in December, suffering painful symptoms in an experience that the wind surfer said won’t stop her from competing in the...

  • Posted February 20, 2016
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• Pesquera: Prasa Contractors Resort to Bankruptcy, Plant Maintenance at Risk

  SAN JUAN – The fiscal crisis affecting the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) and a long history of mismanagement has driven dozens of its independent contractors, many of whom worked on infrastructure maintenance projects, to...

  • Posted February 19, 2016
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• In Central America, Gangs An Obstacle In Battle Against Zika

  El Salvador – For health workers battling Zika across much of Central America, the immediate menace is not the mosquitoes that transmit the virus. It’s the gangsters who control the streets, and sometimes threaten their lives. Armed...

  • Posted February 10, 2016
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• Brazil Health Official Confirms Zika Spread Via Transfusion

  RIO DE JANEIRO – Two people in southeastern Brazil contracted the Zika virus through blood transfusions, a municipal health official said Thursday, presenting a fresh challenge to efforts to contain the virus on top of the disclosure...

  • Posted February 5, 2016
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• Brazil Minister Says No Plans To Cancel Rio Games

  RIO DE JANEIRO  – Brazilian organizers have reiterated they have no intention of canceling the Rio de Janeiro Olympics because of the outbreak of the Zika virus, with Sports Minister George Hilton saying the topic “is not...

  • Posted February 5, 2016
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• Botched French Drug Trial Leaves 1 Brain Dead, 5 in Hospital

  PARIS – One man was brain dead and three others faced possible permanent brain damage after volunteering to take part in a drug trial for a painkiller based on a natural brain compound similar to the active...

  • Posted January 15, 2016
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