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Chile Declares State of Catastrophe Due to Wildfires
Santiago de Chile, Feb 5 (Prensa Latina) Chilean President Sebastián Piñera declared on Tuesday a ”State of Constitutional Exception” in the southern regions of La Araucanía, Biobío and Los Ríos, as a result of the forest fires that devastate those areas. This measure, which is interpreted as a state of catastrophe, was implemented in the…
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‘Medieval disease caused by trash’: Typhus spreads to LA City Hall
Homeless tents line the street around the Fred Jordan Mission, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, California, May 12, 2018. © Reuters/Dania Maxwell The epidemic of typhus in Los Angeles, California has spread from homeless encampments to City Hall. Local authorities say they are trying to address the problem, but critics point to mountains of…
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400,000 deaths later, families still struggling with US opioid epidemic
LA QUINTA, Calif. The scope of the opioid epidemic is tallied in increasingly grim death counts. Twenty years in, the crisis has claimed more than 400,000 lives. Each of those lost left behind a family now grappling with grief and shame, relief and regret. In La Quinta, Calif., there is nothing left to do, no…
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1,500 earthquakes at Anker in 3 months
THE mines ministry recorded 1 500 micro earthquakes at Anker in the Kunene region between June and September 2018 while carrying out a seismic survey. A micro earthquake does not cause any damages and has a magnitude of less than 3,0, while a light earthquake has a magnitude of between 4,0 – 4,9, and causes…
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Australia’s blistering heatwave is breaking records, killing animals en masse
While many Canadians and Americans suffer through the depths of winter, blistering summer temperatures are wreaking havoc with Australia‘s environment, killing animals, cooking fruit and toppling decades-old heat records. Adelaide set a record for the highest temperature ever recorded in an Australian city Thursday, when the heat peaked at 46.6 degrees Celsius. Adelaide’s previous record of 46.1 Celsius [114.98…
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Congo ebola outbreak: Deadly virus and cholera killing HUNDREDS amid political unrest
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo is racing to contain a deadly cholera outbreak that has swept through conflict-ravaged villages and now spread to Lubumbashi, the country’s second-biggest city, senior health official Modeste Balloy Kusiwa said. Republic of Congo is racing to contain a deadly cholera outbreak (Image: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) The cholera outbreak has killed more than…
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Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Ministry of Health (MoH), WHO and partners continue to respond to the ongoing Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in one of the most complex settings possible. A high number of cases are still being reported, most notably from the metropolitan areas of Katwa Health Zone during the past week. The decline in case incidence…
