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Social Share While most are focused on coronavirus, dengue fever continues to cause illness and even death among residents. The latest person to succumb to the disease in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is a 15-year-old asthmatic female who has been recorded as the eighth person to die from complications of severe dengue fever during the current outbreak. Since the outbreak began last year, the majority of cases have been recorded in persons under 16, with an attack rate of 2.6 ...

Jan 12, 2021 Midges! Midges! Midges! The midges are on the move, swarming residences along the coastline.  The Vector Control Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness has been notified of the midges’ invasions.  Fortunately, these tiny pesky bugs are not seen as a public health hazard, but even so, the ministry sent out workers on an extermination mission.   Hipolito Novelo, Reporting Midges are invading residences along the coast. These are pesky bugs that collect in the thou...

Jan 12, 2021 Kim Bautista 2020 was a dreadful year for many, and we are all happy to leave that year in the past. But not everything was bad. Some good news from last year is that the number of dengue cases saw a significant decline compared to 2019. One thousand one hundred and sixty-three cases were recorded instead of the more than eight thousand cases the year before.  That’s a decline of about eighty-six percent.  Also, in 2020, there were no dengue-related deaths.  Chief of ...

Loss of Vega Flight VV17: Independent Enquiry Commission announces conclusions On Tuesday, November 17, Arianespace announced the loss of the Vega VV17 mission, which was carrying two payloads, SEOSAT-Ingenio, an Earth-science observation satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of Spains Center for Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), and TARANIS for France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES). The first three stages functioned nominally until the ignit...

Vega takes off on its 17th flight on Nov. 16, 2020. (Credit: Arianespace webcast) PARIS, 17 December 2020 — On Tuesday, November 17, Arianespace announced the loss of the Vega VV17 mission, which was carrying two payloads, SEOSAT-Ingenio, an Earth-science observation satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of Spain’s Center for Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), and TARANIS for France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES). The first three stages functioned ...

Misleading processes and inadequate testing caused an inversion of steering, officer Richard Speed Fri 18 Dec 2020 // 12:30 UTC Share Copy ESA has published its report into the loss of the Vega VV17 mission and said the screwup was due to an "inversion of electrical connections" during integration. Which, frankly, sounds a lot like someone plugged something in the wrong way round. The rocket blasted off on schedule at 01:52 UTC on 17 November from the French Guiana space...

Study reveals onchocerciasis can be eliminated by adapting new measures and tools A report on onchocerciasis (also known as river blindness) shows continued global progress towards achieving interruption of transmission of the disease. Data captured during 2019 show that more than 153 million people received treatment through large-scale medicine distribution in areas at risk for transmission. Furthermore, due to the successful completion of past rounds of treatments and surveillance, an estima...

Are you all alone? this is crazy. >> you know, laura, i never thought we would actually have to do a study of how many rats where they are in california and with of the population was increasing and by how much was it increasing. that is exactly the study we had to release today. a team of pest control specialists, vector control officials from local government and two public health experts all came out. it is a dire warning. theres been a doubling, at least a doubling in the rat population in c...

Reform california chairman carl demaio, carl is anyone still in elected office trying to help or are you all alone? this is crazy. >> you know, laura, i never thought we would actually have to do a study of how many rats where they are in california and with of the population was increasing and by how much was it increasing. that is exactly the study we had to release today. a team of pest control specialists, vector control officials from local government and two public health experts all came ...

Has received several complaints. >> we have had some people who have called complaining of respiratory issues. those we have sent in to their physician. >> reporter: the cdc recommends that everyone get rid o standing water, a breedi ground for mosquitos, and use insect repellants outdoors. >> we sprayed everybody. we have bottles at the front door, the back door. >> reporter: later today, vector control will be spraying kem cams over the california town of woodland. doing this over two consecut...