La Rioja will start the vaccination campaign 2026-2027 against flu and covid in the residences of elderly people the week of September 21, advancing the schedule compared to previous seasons. The administration of the doses will be done progressively with the aim of reinforcing the protection of the most vulnerable...
The representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office decided this Monday to withdraw the charges against the former Catalan Health Ministers, Alba Vergés and Josep Maria Argimon, as well as against the former Director General of Health, Marc Ramentol, and the former Director of the Catalan Health Service (CatSalut), Adrià Comella,...
The National Statistics Institute (INE) has recognized María Dolores Ugarte Martínez with the National Statistics Award 2025, a professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the Public University of Navarre (UPNA) and head of the "Spatial Statistics" research group at that institution.As the INE stated in an informative note, the...
A decade after the Ebola crisis exposed serious deficiencies in global preparedness for epidemics and six years after the covid-19 pandemic turned those shortcomings into a global crisis, a group of experts linked to the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the world is no more protected today against a...
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 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...