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Last update: 40 minutes agoWorld Health Assembly Wrap-Up: The 79th World Health Assembly in Geneva ended with member states adopting 20+ decisions and 13 resolutions on issues like stroke, tuberculosis, antimicrobial resistance, emergency care, and precision medicine, with Dominican Health Minister Víctor Atallah Lajam highlighting stronger emergency preparedness and support for health workers. Hispaniola Disease Control: PAHO and the Carter Center signed a technical cooperation deal to speed up elimination of onchocerciasis (“river blindness”) by 2030, while also pushing malaria and lymphatic filariasis work on Hispaniola. Ebola Preparedness in DR: The Dominican Ministry of Public Health activated preventive measures after alerts about an Ebola outbreak in Central Africa, boosting monitoring at airports and ports and training lab and medical teams. Food Safety Push: DIGEMAPS launched national programs to control pathogens and chemical residues in meat, aiming to tighten inspections, sampling, and microbiological surveillance. Local Health Watch: The Ministry says COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses are circulating at expected seasonal levels, with no epidemiological alerts.
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