News of disease

39 dead as Argentina suffers largest dengue outbreak since 2020

19-04-2023 14:28 Latest report from National Health Ministry confirms over 41,200 cases and 39 deaths across 15 provinces so far this year.

BIRD FLU

Government suspends all poultry exports after bird flu finding

01-03-2023 10:29 Argentina self-suspends export of all chicken products after Senasa health body confirms first positive case of avian influenza in industrial poultry.

Beef Export

Brazil suspends beef exports to China after mad cow case

23-02-2023 16:39 Brazil, the world’s biggest beef exporter, is halting exports of the red meat to China starting Thursday after confirming a case of the animal illness known as mad cow disease.

HEALTH

Legionnaires' outbreak in Tucumán claims sixth life

05-09-2022 16:42 Latest victim, who died late Sunday, was an 81-year-old patient with comorbidities who had been "in a serious condition" receiving treatment for pneumonia.

HEALTH

Legionnaires' disease claims fifth life in Tucumán

04-09-2022 16:48 Legionnaires' disease has claimed a fifth life among patients and staff at a clinic in the northern province of Tucumán, provincial health officials announced Sunday.

HEALTH

Health officials links four pneumonia deaths in Tucumán to Legionnaires' disease

03-09-2022 16:30 A fourth patient has died in the mysterious outbreak of a pneumonia of unknown origin in Tucumán, as a local outlet reports that at least one of the 11 infected have tested positive for Legionnaires' disease.

HEALTH

Authorities confirm first case of monkeypox in Argentina

27-05-2022 10:28 Patient is a 40-year-old male who had returned to the country from Spain. The individual has symptoms compatible with the disease, including fever and blisters on some parts of his body.

RARE DISEASE

Health Ministry probing first suspected case of monkeypox in Argentina

23-05-2022 12:26 Patient treated in Buenos Aires returned from Spain a week ago and has symptoms compatible with rare disease, including “pustules on different parts of the body and fever," according to officials.

BLOOMBERG

China’s limited beef options imply Brazil will be brief

06-09-2021 14:09 China’s beef supply options are shrinking after the latest move by Brazil to halt exports there following the discovery of two cases of mad cow disease.

HEALTH

High blood pressure doubled globally in 30 years, study shows

25-08-2021 13:36 The number of people living with high blood pressure more than doubled since 1990, according to a major study. In Argentina, more than half of men had hypertension.