Tag: juliana-matuoka
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Brazil’s anti-Zika war goes house to house
Sao Paulo resident Juliana Matuoka always thought her stunning tropical flowers were something to appreciate from afar. “Here, I got one!” exclaimed Marcio Hoglhammer, a municipal health department worker who arrived along with colleagues and two young soldiers as part of Brazil's massive house-to-house effort to eradicate the Zika virus and dengue-carrying mosquitoes. “I found…
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First Zika-linked deaths reported in Colombia
The mosquito-borne Zika virus sweeping through Latin America has claimed three lives in Colombia, as the United Nations urged increased access to abortion because of fears of severe birth defects. In the first direct statements from government health officials blaming Zika for causing deaths, Colombia's National Health Institute (INS) said Friday that the patients died…