Global & Disaster Medicine

Archive for June, 2016

Turkey: Death toll rises to 42 after woman dies at hospital

 


Terror in the terminal at Ataturk Airport

 


Istanbul: One suicide bomber detonates himself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb3syPaqxRw

 


Istanbul Airport


UNICEF: The number of children who do not attend school is rising, child marriage has not dropped in decades and millions of young children will die mostly preventable deaths by 2030 if global poverty is not addressed

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Saudi MOH: ‘2 New Confirmed MERS-CoV Cases Recorded’

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At least five people have been killed and 15 others wounded in a multiple suicide bomb attack in north-eastern Lebanon.

BBC

 


Female genital mutilation and excision (FGM/E) continues to be carried out in every region of Guinea. With the second highest prevalence of FGM/E worldwide after Somalia, 97% of women and girls aged 15 to 49 years in Guinea have undergone excision.

JAMA

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Weather Patterns

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Central Great Lakes sector loop

Northeast sector loop

 


The Alere™ Filariasis Test Strip (FTS) is a rapid diagnostic tool that provides qualitative detection of lymphatic filariasis (LF) infection and is the test recommended by WHO for mapping and monitoring LF elimination programs.

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A newly developed FTS automated test reader was recently evaluated in Haiti.

 


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