Health in Caribbean
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, 2016/03/20
Dominica has reported its initial case of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
Health Minister Dr. Kenneth Darroux said yesterday that it was a locally transmitted case, since the person who was infected had no history of travel outside the island in the recent completed.
“To date, a total of 13 samples have been tested for Zika virus with only one being positive,” he said.
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CUBA, 2015/08/26
For geographical reasons, neighboring Colombia is a favored gateway for Cubans fleeing Venezuela, who’s a populist government, is struggling to rein-in runaway inflation, widespread shortages of goods and services and rising social unrest.
On Saturday, the exodus reached critical mass at the same time as about 100 Cuban doctors, who deserted a medical mission in Venezuela and have been stranded in Colombia for months awaiting entry into the US, staged a turmoil to draw attention to their plight. Deteriorating conditions in Venezuela are causing increasing numbers of Cuban medical personnel working there to immigrate to the United States under a special US program launched in 2006 that expedites their applications.
Brandishing their diplomas, the Cuban health professionals congregated in a plaza in Kennedy, a working-class neighborhood built in the 1960s with funds from John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Evolution.
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CUBA, 2014/10/19
Ebola is a deadly virus, and as Cuba's president Fidel Castro outlined, it may as well be an opportunity for the US and Cuba approaching together and work jointly to fight this world threat to human health.
US National Secretary of National John Kerry on Friday spoke about Cuba as one of the nations large and small stepping up in impressive ways to make a contribution on the front lines.
People in the U.S. are seriously underserved by primary care physicians, the very doctors who are needed at the same time as it comes to combating the spread of disease. Instead, the U.S. has all kinds of high-priced specialists in everything from dermatology and liposuction to cancer specialists who could help and combat the diseases caused by our increasingly toxic environment and our chemical-laced foods.
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AMERICAS, 2014/10/10
Chief of the United States Southern Military Command, (SOUTHCOM), warned that an Ebola outbreak in Central America or the Caribbean could trigger a mass migration to the United States.
Marine Gen. John F. Kelly as well implied that established Central American illegal trafficking networks could introduce the infected persons into the US.
“If it comes to the Western Hemisphere, the nations that we’re talking about have almost no ability to transaction with it — particularly in Haiti and Central America,” said Kelly during remarks at a panel Tuesday on security issues in the Western Hemisphere at the National Defense University here.
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HAITI, 2014/06/01
Haiti and the United Nations have vowed to continue with efforts aimed at eliminating Cholera from the French-speaking Caribbean country as reports from the initial months of 2014 reflect the lowest number of cases and cholera-related deaths since the beginning of the epidemic.
The UN said that a high-level committee for the elimination of cholera in Haiti was held on Wednesday and Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said that the government’s activities and those of the UN and other partners to combat cholera are “bearing fruit”.
According to the new figures from April, “concerted Haitian and international efforts have succeeded in significantly reducing the toll of the epidemic,” the UN said.
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AMERICAS, 2013/05/18
