Archive for April 28th, 2009
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Managua – Nicaragua is adopting measures to prevent contagion with the swine fever outbreak affecting Mexico and the US that also reports human-to-human transmission.
The National System for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Assistance (SINAPRED) banned live pigs and porcine derivative imports from Mexico or crossing through Mexico, which has already reported more than 20 fatalities.
El Salvador, Costa Rica and Guatemala adopted similar measures, and the latter has placed an epidemiological closure of its border with Mexico.
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Crime in Costa Rica is on the increase, especially in homicides, which has gone from an average, in the whole country, of one murder daily to 1.5, and San José leading the way with 57 homicides so far this year.
The numbers were provided by Paula Guido, head of the homicides division of the Ministerio Público, who confirmed that the number of homicides is on the increase.
Guido said that for the same period in 2008, there were 56 families grieving a loved one.
However, contrary to what one would believe, the largest number of homicides have occurred in the peripheral areas of San José and not the downtown core, where crime is supposedly the worst. (more…)
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Peru and Costa Rica Friday reinforced their epidemic vigilance measures following a deadly swine flu outbreak in Mexico.
In Peru, health services intensified vigilance actions for all the people traveling from Mexico and the United States in an effort to detect symptoms of the flu.
Although there has not been any similar case registered in Peru, the alert state will continue as a preventive measure, Peruvian health authorities said.
Meanwhile in Costa Rica, Health Minister Maria Luisa Avila told Xinhua on Friday that her country had declared a sanitary alert across the country.
Like Peru, there has not been any case of flu infection reported in Costa Rica, but Avila said the situation in Mexico are “worrying.”
According to Avila, the country’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock also took actions by observing the swines in the country, and the migratory authorities were requested to strengthen vigilance measures at the airports. All passengers from Mexico will receive check.
The Mexican authorities have confirmed 20 deaths across the country from this flu outbreak.
According to earlier media reports, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that there had been 57 suspected deaths in Mexico from the outbreak of what it identified as “swineflu.”
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