On World Tuberculosis Day, PAHO calls for increased investments in TB services
TB deaths in the Americas increased by an estimated 3,000 in 2020 compared to 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Around 18,300 children live with the disease in the region, with limited access to diagnosis and treatment Washington, D.C., March…
Venezuelan crisis bringing back major diseases thought long gone
By Cathy Burke From Newsmax Contagion from Venezuela’s economic meltdown is literally spreading to neighboring nations — in the form of potentially deadly diseases among millions of refugees, The Wall Street Journal reported. Medical officials in Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela told…
PAHO: Caribbean countries among those with the lowest incidence of TB
Progress must be accelerated to end tuberculosis in the Americas, says new PAHO report Over a quarter of a million people live with TB in the Region of the Americas and 24,000 died from the disease in 2017. But the…
An estimated 50,000 people in the Americas have TB but do not know it – PAHO/WHO
PAHO/WHO: “Let’s unite to end TB, leaving no one behind” An estimated 50,000 people in the Americas have TB but do not know it. Washington, D.C., March 23, 2017 (PAHO/WHO) — The countries of the Americas have dramatically reduced new…
Tuberculosis at Cayman Islands Hospital
From Cayman Islands Department of Health Tuberculosis at Hospital The Public Health Department advises the public that four patients are receiving treatment for tuberculosis (TB) at the Cayman Islands Hospital. Since the beginning of 2015 there have been seven cases….
New Office 365 OneDrive storage is essentially “unlimited”
By Tony Bradley From Tech Republic Microsoft bumped the OneDrive cloud storage for all Office 365 accounts to a whopping 1 TB. Microsoft raised the roof on its OneDrive storage this week. The new OneDrive capacities are still limited, but…
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Cayman Commissioner Baines exonerated from Diamonds International jewelry From RCIPS Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:21 AM The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (“ODPP”) notified the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service today (Thu May 29) that no criminal…
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Cayman bank refuses to process former FIFA VP’s payments According to a report by the UK’s Daily Telegraph, former FIFA Vice-President, Jack Warner, is alleged to have been personally paid approx. $1.2M by a firm controlled by a former Qatari…
