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		<title>Vox pop Dengue: They&#8217;re back&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/vox-pop-dengue-theyre-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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British Virgin Islands
by Freeman Rogers, Editor, The BVI Beacon
Well, okay, the mosquitoes never really went away.  But they’ve been particularly awful recently, at least in my Road Town apartment.
So I’ve decided to fight back.
Every morning I get out of bed and grab one of those electric tennis rackets.  Then I sit in my living room and cackle with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com&blog=1281587&post=2072&subd=woodshedenvironment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New NIDs plan afoot to tackle parasitic infectious diseases</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an initiative afoot in Latin America and the Caribbean to tackle the problem of parasitic infectious diseases such as Dengue Fever. The International Development Bank (IDB) has teamed up with the PAHO (Pan American Health Organization) and the Global Network to, as IDB president Luis Alberto Morena stated, &#8220;to put an end to&#8230;preventable and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com&blog=1281587&post=2044&subd=woodshedenvironment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Belize PM Barrow too?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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Belize
Yet another head of state from the wider Caribbean has been smitten by Dengue Fever.  First there was DR Vice President Rafael Albuquerque who was hospitalized on Sunday, August 17 2008 with Dengue Fever, one day after his swearing-in ceremony.  In September of that year, Trinidad Minister of Health Jerry Narace suffered the same fate, although [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com&blog=1281587&post=2027&subd=woodshedenvironment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dengue plays second fiddle to AH1N1 (updated)</title>
		<link>http://woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/dengue-plays-second-fiddle-to-ah1n1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AH1N1 (Swine Flu) has, in the past year, been receiving a considerable amount of attention from Caribbean health authorities, seemingly to the detriment of the more longstanding Dengue problem in the region.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com&blog=1281587&post=1997&subd=woodshedenvironment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sanofi Dengue vaccine trials take a step forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Israel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sanofi Pasteur has taken yet another step forward in the development of its investigational, novel tetravalent Dengue vaccine candidate with advanced clinical studies among children and adults in Singapore and Vietnam.  Part of a global clinical study programme being undertaken in endemic regions in Asia and Latin America, these studies mark the expansion of  sanofi-aventis [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com&blog=1281587&post=1981&subd=woodshedenvironment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>National Surveillance Unit of Trinidad says Dengue on &#8220;Steady Decline&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Israel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Surveillance Unit of the Trinidad Health Ministry revealed in an official press release in late August that there was a "steady decline" in Suspected Dengue Cases by month in Trinidad and Tobago between February and July.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com&blog=1281587&post=1966&subd=woodshedenvironment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba lends Sri Lanka a helping hand with Dengue outbreak</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Israel</dc:creator>
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Cuba
Two Cuban epidemiologists were in Sri Lanka in mid-August to lend a helping hand to the Health Ministry there in its ongoing tug-o-war with a Dengue outbreak, which had claimed 232 lives.
The Cuban experts first toured the country to assess the situation and presented the Sri Lanka Public Health Director, Palitha Maheepala, with a detailed report of how to tackle the Dengue outbreak using the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com&blog=1281587&post=1953&subd=woodshedenvironment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 confirmed Dengue deaths in Guatemala at August</title>
		<link>http://woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/10-confirmed-dengue-deaths-in-guatemala-at-august/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Israel</dc:creator>
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 Guatemala
The confirmation by health authorities in early August of the death of two people from Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in the Caribbean Sea province of Izabal, brings to at least 10 the number of deaths to Dengue this year.  This figure is derived partly from a report by an opposition party Congressman, representing Izabal, that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com&blog=1281587&post=1943&subd=woodshedenvironment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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