Year: 2016

By Paulo Prada Rio de Janeiro (Reuters) – Last January, long lines formed outside health clinics in Recife, a city in Brazil's northeast hit hard in recent years by outbreaks of dengue, a painful tropical disease. Doctors were on guard because federal health officials and the World Health Organization (WHO) had warned 2015 would be a bad year for dengue and possibly another viral disease, chikungunya, both spread by the same type of mosquito. "We knew this was something else," says Carlos Brito, a doctor from Recife who told state and federal health authorities in January-February last year that they were wrong to classify all the cases as dengue.

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By Jeffrey Gogo HARARE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Health officials in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, have detected several cases of typhoid fever in the past week, adding to fears that a water crisis will fuel the spread of infectious diseases. "The conditions on the ground – frequent water cuts and poor sanitation – are conducive to a typhoid outbreak," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Last year, more than 40 people in Harare were hospitalised due to typhoid, a bacteral infection that causes fever, headaches and constipation or diarrhoea.

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By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The number of severely malnourished children has spiked in northern Rakhine state in Myanmar, a European Union agency said, after floods six months ago dealt a new blow to an area home to a persecuted population with little access to basic services. About 90 percent of the people in northern Rakhine state are Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority that faces discrimination and violence in mostly Buddhist Myanmar. Widespread floods across Myanmar six months ago – caused by torrential rains and Cyclone Komen – destroyed crops, damaged rice paddies and contaminated water sources, worsening food insecurity.

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By Alissa de Carbonnel BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union sought sweeping powers over national car regulations on Wednesday, aiming to prevent a repeat of Volkswagen's emissions test cheating scandal and sparking a tough debate as governments and industry resist change. Under the proposed new rules, Brussels would be able to order spot checks on vehicles, order recalls and impose penalties on carmakers of up to 30,000 euros ($32,600) per vehicle for failure to comply with environmental laws – if no fine was being imposed by the member state. The new plans would also authorize individual EU member states to recall cars approved by any of the bloc&039;s other nations for violations, encouraging peer review of national authorities.

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