Tag: neighborhood
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Officials: Zika found in South Beach; spraying not practical
MIAMI (AP) — South Beach has been identified as a second site of Zika transmission by mosquitoes on the U.S. mainland, and containing it there will be difficult because high-rise buildings and strong winds make it impractical to spray the neighborhood from the air, officials said Friday.
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Justice elusive for slain aid workers on front lines of crises
By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It was a massacre that shocked the world’s humanitarian community. Seventeen aid workers were killed outside their office in Sri Lanka’s northeast – executed at point-blank range with automatic weapons in one of the worst attacks on humanitarians. A decade on, justice remains elusive for families…
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Florida probes new Zika case outside Miami
Florida is investigating a new case of Zika infection outside the neighborhood in Miami where mosquitoes are believed to have spread the virus to more than a dozen people, officials said Monday. Florida Governor Rick Scott described the case as a “new individual with non-travel related Zika in Palm Beach County,” north of Miami. The…
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‘Little ninja’: Zika-spreading mosquito puts up tough fight
MIAMI (AP) — The mosquitoes spreading Zika in Miami are proving harder to eradicate than expected, the nation's top disease-fighter said Tuesday as authorities sprayed clouds of insecticide in the ground-zero neighborhood, emptied kiddie pools and handed out cans of insect repellent to the homeless.
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‘Little ninja’: Zika-spreading mosquito puts up tough fight
MIAMI (AP) — The mosquitoes spreading Zika in Miami are proving harder to eradicate than expected, the nation's top disease-fighter said Tuesday as authorities sprayed clouds of insecticide in the ground-zero neighborhood, emptied kiddie pools and handed out cans of insect repellent to the homeless.
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Infrastructure inequality is catalyst for Brazil’s Zika epidemic
“You can see the swarms of mosquitoes around the trash heaps here in my neighborhood,” said Gleyse da Silva, who lives in one of the poorest parts of Brazil's northeastern city of Recife, at the epicenter of the Zika outbreak. Silva contracted the mosquito-borne virus while pregnant and gave birth in October to Maria -…
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Infrastructure inequality is catalyst for Brazil’s Zika epidemic
“You can see the swarms of mosquitoes around the trash heaps here in my neighborhood,” said Gleyse da Silva, who lives in one of the poorest parts of Brazil's northeastern city of Recife, at the epicenter of the Zika outbreak. Silva contracted the mosquito-borne virus while pregnant and gave birth in October to Maria -…