Zika virus may infect up to 700,000 people in Colombia: Govt
The mosquito-borne Zika virus has already infected more than 13,500 people in Colombia and could hit as many as 700,000, the health minister said on Wednesday.
The mosquito-borne Zika virus has already infected more than 13,500 people in Colombia and could hit as many as 700,000, the health minister said on Wednesday.
Colombia has had 35 deaths due to the chikungunya virus, according to the country’s National Health Institute.
Illicit drug consumption in Colombia has increased by 38% over the past five years, with the largest demographic increase coming among 18-24 year-olds, according to a recent survey on drug…
A report on elderly well-being developed by HelpAge International and the United Nations Fund for Population and Development (UNFPA) puts Colombia in 54th place out of 90 countries included in…
Disturbing health abnormalities afflicting various towns in northern Colombia stem from the communities’ close proximity to the Cerro Matoso open-cast mine, according to environmental and health activists in the region.
Authorities in the northern Colombian city of Santa Marta and the owner of a storage are involved in a row over who is to blame for a fire that sent…
The ombudsman of Colombia’s third largest city, Cali, said Thursday the city’s biggest prison with 5,830 inmates is living through a “humanitarian crisis” due to appalling sanitary conditions and overcrowding.
Contaminated water could be the cause behind the deaths of two young girls and the hospitalization of dozens more in northern Colombia, said a government official Tuesday. A three-year-old girl…
Before departing for Mexico, the first stop in his Latin America tour, Colombia’s President-elect Juan Manuel Santos named Mauricio Santamaria, the current director of the national foundation for education and…