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Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 8,956 in 2019; Deaths Reach 224
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Themes: Missing Migrants Geneva – The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN Migration Agency, reports that 8,956 migrants and refugees have entered Europe by sea through 27 February, a 12 per cent decrease from the 10,243 arriving during the same period last year. … Read More
Measles outbreak in Philippines passes 8,000 cases
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The Department of Health released an infomercial Monday starring boxer Manny Pacquiao urging the public to vaccinate themselves and their children. Philippine Red Cross health workers administer a measles vaccine to a boy during a nationwide response program to immunization … Read More
Dengue fever cases on rise in Indonesia
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File photo: A municipal worker fumigates a flooded alley to prevent the spread of dengue fever and other mosquito-borne diseases at a residential colony in Ahmedabad, India, July 29, 2017. Reuters/Amit Dave JAKARTA, Indonesia: A outbreak of dengue fever claimed … Read More
Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 6,413 in 2019; Deaths Reach 208
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Geneva – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 6,413 migrants and refugees have entered Europe by sea through the first 34 days of 2019, a 17 percent decrease from the 7,499 arriving during the same period last year. However almost … Read More
400,000 deaths later, families still struggling with US opioid epidemic
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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 … Read More