Giving hope to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary patients
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is recognised all over the world as a public health problem and the Cayman Islands is not an exception. In the Cayman Islands, diseases of the respiratory system account for 10% of deaths, the third…
Cayman Islands Minister of Health’s Message for World AIDS Day Dec 1 2017
Minister for Health, Environment, Culture and Housing Hon. Dwayne Seymour, JP, MLA World AIDS Day 2017 1 December 2017 As the festive season approaches, it is always a poignant time of year for people who have lost loved ones, particularly…
World Diabetes Day
From CTMH Doctors Hospital World Diabetes Day was first introduced in 1991, and founded by both the International Diabetes Federation and the World Health Organization. In reaction to the rise in cases of Diabetes worldwide, it was decided to choose…
Cayman Islands Minister of Health Message for World Mental Health Day 2017
Minister for Health, Environment, Culture and Housing Hon. Dwayne Seymour, JP, MLA Message for World Mental Health Day 2017 Tuesday, 10 October 2017 We are once again marking World Mental Health Day, the annual date which highlights an issue that…
Dr. Carissa F. Etienne re-elected for second term as PAHO Director
Washington, D.C., September 27, 2017 (PAHO/WHO) — Dr. Carissa F. Etienne was re-elected today for a second five-year term as Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) by the Member States of the organization. Ministers of health meeting at…
Nigeria: Hundreds of thousands vaccinated against cholera in Northeast
By Lisa Schlein Voice of America From AllAfrica Geneva — The World Health Organization reports 844,000 people in northeast Nigeria have been reached with one dose of oral cholera vaccine in an effort to prevent the fatal disease from spreading….
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US firm to market Zika virus diagnostic to Caribbean
From Jamaica Observer UTAH, USA (CMC) — A molecular diagnostics company based in the United States says it has strengthened relationships with key regional customers throughout the Caribbean basin to purchase Zika virus diagnostic. Co-Diagnostics Inc, located in the state…
Fleas carrying the bubonic plague have been found in Arizona
By Kevin Loria From Business Insider Health officials in two Arizona counties reported that fleas tested positive forYersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes the plague. Plague regularly appears in the American Southwest, where it often kills rodents like prairie dogs…
What happened to Zika? Florida has no local cases this year – so far
BY DANIEL CHANG From Miami Herald A year after the first outbreak of Zika in Miami, the mosquito-borne virus’s once-menacing march has slowed to a crawl, with Florida health officials reporting fewer infections in 2017 than last year and no…
Dengue outbreak in Ivory Coast continues to increase, according to the World Health Organization
By Alex Murtha From Homeland Preparedness News An outbreak of dengue fever first identified in May continues to affect multiple regions in the Ivory Coast, according to a recent report by the World Health Organization (WHO). The first cases of…
