Diseases subject to the International Health Regulations : Cholera, yellow fever, and plague cases and deaths reported in the Region of the Americas up to 31 December 1986

Data on the outbreak, con- sidered to be of major importance to health workers, are presented

Early identification and removal of contaminated products from the com- mercial market, correction of faulty food

portant vector of jungle yellow fever; it has extended from the Atlantic coastal regions of Honduras and Nic- aragua, through Central America, the South

aCorrection of data previously

Typhoid fever stands out among Chile's health prob- lems because of its high morbidity rates, its tendency to increase, and the difficulties encountered in controlling

fied in the areas of action for the eradication of the urban yellow fever vector, as well as all the necessary steps to enable PAHO to coordinate, identify,

It is recommended that a triple drug combined treat- ment be administered to all multibacillary patients: new previously untreated patients, those that have

Beginning in early 1982, cases of a febrile illness (some with exanthema) were notified in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima Territory, and were subsequently