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Law allowing aerial insecticide application in urban areas causes controversy
Aerial spraying is successfully used in other countries. In Brazil, the technology was used a single time, in 1975 A bill sanctioned by interim president Michel Temer, this June, has caused controversies between health technicians and experts from agricultural aviation companies. According to the Bill 13.301/2016, the use of airplanes for aerial spraying in urban... 
645 pages of history, evolution cycle, vectors, diagnostic, treatment, epidemiology and disease control Book gathers all knowledge of all arthropod-related diseasesThe book "Diseases Transmitted and Caused by Arthropods" [Doenças Transmitidas e Causadas por Artrópodes, in Brazilian Portuguese], published by Atheneu publisher in 2009, has its origins in an observation: there were no books in Portuguese that included and assessed diseases related to these animals. However, the editor, entomologist Carlos Brisola, went beyond and realized there were no similar works even in English. This was the birth of "Arthropod... 
Around 10 thousand microcephaly cases have been reported and there is a wide spectrum of congenital abnormalities caused by the infection Network joins researchers and civil society to formulate policies against ZikaThe Zika outbreak no longer creates the same mobilization as short ago. Even the World Health Organization's (WHO) Emergency Committee has declared, in November, it does not consider the virus or microcephaly an international health emergency. However, regardless of the theme being or not in evidence, a group composed by experts, managers and representatives of the civil society is well focused combating the virus. It is the National Network of Zika Experts and Correlate...
Chagas' disease: an unresolved issue
Slow diagnosis and treatment could lead to death under the disease's acute form IN 2006, Brazil was granted by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) with the International Elimination of Transmission of Chagas' Disease Certificate. However, the picture has changed in the past years. |
End of worldwide Zika emergency splits opinions
From neglected disease to global emergency, Zika is redefined as a severe illness The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on November 18 that the Zika outbreak - which struck over 75 countries in a one-year period - is no longer a sanitary emergency with international reach. 
Scientists discover new method to restore function of white blood cells in septic patients HIV patients showing signs of multidrug resistance in Africa Epidemiology of Invasive Early-Onset Neonatal Sepsis, 2005 to 2014 "Highly increased our chances to control HIV epidemics in the Americas”, says who official Health of those who live in slums AIDS fight does not reduce new infections, UNAIDS says 
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Below is a selection of for this month of December of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals. HIV-Positive-to-HIV-Positive Liver Transplantation Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 
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From 11 to 14 june 2017 6th International Conference of Research on Plasmodium vivax malaria
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Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine - Center for Tropical Medicine - UnB |
