Hilmi Toros
ISTANBUL, Jan 10 2006 (IPS) – Human deaths from the bird flu virus have taken a giant leap from East Asia to Turkey. Where next, if anywhere?
Human deaths from the bird flu virus have taken a giant leap from East Asia to Turkey. Where next, if anywhere?
While previous human casualties had been confined to the epicentre in South-East Asia, Turkish health officials belatedly acknowledged that three children died from the effects of the avian influenza in the rugged eastern part of the country, after first attributing the deaths to pneumonia.
The victims are believed to have contracted the virus from contact with chicken stricken by the deadly H5N1 virus carried by migrating birds.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports 76 deaths from the…
Stefania Bianchi
BRUSSELS, Feb 16 2006 (IPS) – European Union experts are calling for calm over the increasing threat of bird flu as the virus continues to spread throughout the bloc.
European Union (EU) scientists and veterinary experts meeting in Brussels Wednesday and Thursday (Feb. 15 and 16) have agreed stronger measures to counter outbreaks of potentially lethal bird flu, but also urged consumers not to panic despite the increase of new cases.
Experts on the EU s standing committee on the food chain and animal health held two days of talks to examine how to reinforce the bloc s protection against the avian flu virus, which has spread to more than eight member states.
They backed calls by the European Commission, the EU executive, for extra buffer zones a…
Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO, Mar 20 2006 (IPS) – Revelations that a major hotel operator cheated on the law and scrapped barrier-free facilities, meant for the disabled, has shocked the public but not Kyoko Mita, 53, whose son is afflicted with Downs Syndrome.
This terrible case, she said, referring to the hotel owner who has been arrested, is just one of many examples in Japanese society that shows blatant disregard for the rights of the disabled here.
The homemaker, who is a volunteer for a group helping the physically disabled, says she and her husband live in constant uncertainty about the future of their disabled son who now works in a factory packing disposable chopsticks.
We wonder how he will survive without our care. There is no public or private syst…
Julio Godoy* – Tierramérica
PARIS, Apr 20 2006 (IPS) – For fear that cats could contribute to a more rapid expansion of the bird flu virus, H5N1, several European governments have taken precautionary measures related to these and other domesticated animals. Many citizens are even turning their pet cats over to animal shelters.
The trend to get rid of cats is especially strong in Germany and Austria, where at least six cats and a few rodents, like martens, were found to be infected with a strain of avian flu as a result of close contact with infected birds. The disease has been found in birds in some 30 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
To date, it hasn t been proved that cats can transmit the virus to humans, but researchers at the Erasmus Univer…
Gustavo Capdevila
GENEVA, May 25 2006 (IPS) – The alarming state of health in Bolivia is related to the dominant healthcare model, which ignores the society s traditional cultures, said Health Minister Nila Heredia, who is attending the World Health Assembly in this Swiss city.
Heredia participated in a debate organised by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn Child Health, an international initiative backed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to substantially reducing maternal and infant mortality rates by 2015.
Although there have been significant improvements in maternal and child health in the last few years, the most recent figures, from the 2001 census, put Bolivia in next to last place in Latin …
Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Jun 27 2006 (IPS) – With the decision by mega-investor Warren Buffett to contribute some 31 billion dollars of his personal fortune, the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, already a major player on the global health scene, is set to become even more powerful.
Buffett s contribution, which will be doled out in annual increments beginning with 1.5 billion dollars this year, will bring the foundation s total endowment to some 60 billion dollars, nearly five times the size of the next largest U.S. charity, the Ford Foundation.
That total is greater than the 2004 gross domestic product (GDP) of all but 53 countries, according to the World Bank, or the total official development assistance (ODA) provided by the European Union and its member states to poor c…
Alka Arya
CHANDIGARH, Punjab and Haryana, Aug 10 2006 (IPS) – For campaigners against the practice of selectively aborting unborn girls that has already affected the gender balance in northern India nurse Pooja Rani is something of a heroine.
On Tuesday, Rani led police to a well that she alleged, was used by her employers, Dr. Pritam Singh and his wife Amarjit Kaur, to dispose of scores of unborn girls aborted at their hospital in the Patran town of Punjab s state s Patiala district.
A police raid on the hospital, supported by Patiala district s civil surgeon, Dr. H.S. Mohi, resulted in the recovery of the remains of several female foetuses and other evidence sufficient for the arrest of Singh and his wife.
Rani, who has been working at the hospital for over …
Dalia Acosta
HAVANA, Sep 12 2006 (IPS) – The start of the week-long 14th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) forced the Cuban government to suspend its spraying with military planes, but it has not cut short the intense offensive against the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries the potentially deadly dengue virus.
Although the government has kept mum on the spread of dengue fever in this Caribbean island nation, sources close to the Public Health Ministry told IPS that several thousand cases have been reported in Havana alone, where special hospital wards have been created to care for the sick.
The authorities say everything is under control, while emphasising the need to keep up the health and awareness-raising campaign. Let s prevent the proliferation of the m…
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