Thursday, October 13, 2016

For Venezuela’s Zika Woes, Some Tylenol


With more than 57,000 suspected cases of Zika, Venezuela is witnessing an epidemic eclipsed only by Brazil’s 196,976 and Colombia’s 95,412 cases, according to Pan American Health Organization figures as of October 6. But with its economy in a free-fall, hospitals in Venezuela are dangerously understaffed, scientific research is going vastly underfunded, and medical supplies are stretched thin, leaving the nation uniquely ill-prepared to stem the viral epidemic. More….http://undark.org/2016/10/12/tylenol-zika-venezuela/

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