The former Secretary of Public Health, Carmen Cabezas, appeared this Monday as a witness in the trial being held at the Barcelona Court for the paralysis of the Covid-19 vaccination of police officers and civil guards stationed in Catalonia, and maintained that neither she nor the then Director General of...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has backed this Thursday that a Member State established during the pandemic mandatory vaccination against covid-19 exclusively for the military personnel of its Ministry of Defense, without extending that requirement to civilian employees, understanding that this difference in treatment "is not...
The advisory member of the Directorate General of Public Health and Equity in Health of the Ministry of Health, Jorge del Diego, has detailed that the most recent data indicate that the immunity provided by vaccines against COVID-19 remains solid for about five or six months. For this reason, he...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that progress made in the health systems of numerous countries could be compromised by a real risk of regression, therefore it urges the urgent adoption of new measures to strengthen these structures and preserve the advances achieved in recent years.This is evident from...
The Director-General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has confirmed that all passengers who left the cruise ship 'MV Hondius' before the start of the evacuation operation at the Tenerife port of Granadilla have now been located, and has specified that all of them are currently under surveillance. Among these...
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has sent a direct message to the population of Tenerife following the arrival of the cruise ship MV Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak. In an unusual communication, specifically addressed to the island's citizens, he has asked for calm...
The emergence of several cases of hantavirus linked to a cruise ship has reactivated searches about this disease and has caused a wave of alarmist messages on social media. Among the most repeated doubts is a specific question: whether or not there is a vaccine against this virus. The short answer...
The hantavirus outbreak detected on the cruise ship Hondius has caused international concern and numerous comparisons with the coronavirus pandemic. However, epidemiologists and health officials insist that both scenarios are very different and recall that hantavirus does not present a transmission capacity comparable to that of covid-19. The World Health Organization...