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		<title>Vox Pop Dengue: I got a fever!</title>
		<link>http://woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/vox-pop-dengue-i-got-a-fever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Kearney and fellow volunteers Stephen and Dan work at the Centro Buen Pastor en Caguas in Puerto Rico.  Jon writes a blog to chronicle his experiences.  Over the past few years, a collective effort called Proyecto Siempre Verde (Project Always Green) developed in Puerto Rico.   Jonathan is in the midst of developing trails through the forest.  That was when a bout of Dengue cut him down.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com&blog=1281587&post=2146&subd=woodshedenvironment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jamaica Ministry of Health launches surveillance manual, conducts surveillance workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Israel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Homero Silva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ocho Rios]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jamaica Ministry of Health, November 03, 2009, launched a surveillance manual as a guide to health care workers involved in the investigation and management of communicable diseases.  The launch of the manual in Ocho Rios happened at the same time as the opening of a two-day surveillance workshop in Jamaica.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com&blog=1281587&post=2125&subd=woodshedenvironment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guyana Dengue doubled up this year</title>
		<link>http://woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/guyana-dengue-doubled-up-this-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Israel</dc:creator>
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At 1000 new Dengue cases, Guyana has recorded twice as many cases this year as the last up to the end of September.  It is no consolation that there was a decline in the third quarter for the mosquito population is on the rise again in the coastal areas of the country.  This,  Minister of Health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com&blog=1281587&post=2114&subd=woodshedenvironment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The DR/Haiti to X Malaria out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Israel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Culex mosquito]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Health]]></category>
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Hispaniola
President Leonel Fernandez of the Dominican Republic and Haitian President Rene Preval are being pitched the idea of eliminating Malaria from within their borders by 2020.
Former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, visited with Presidents Fernandez and Preval separately in Santo Domingo and Port-au-Prince in early October to try to persuade them to take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com&blog=1281587&post=2097&subd=woodshedenvironment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Israel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tortola]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Dave Chadee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guppies]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/new-nids-plan-afoot-to-tackle-parasitic-infectious-diseases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Israel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Culex mosquito]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dengue Fever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Network]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Luis Alberto Morena]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/belize-pm-barrow-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Israel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dengue Fever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dengue in Belize]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dean Barrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Narace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafael Albuquerque]]></category>

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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>
		<dc:creator>Israel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Martha Patricia Cano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lorenzo Gonzalez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luis Daniel Muniz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Centers for Disease Control (CDC)]]></category>

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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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