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Indonesia plans medical center for disease control

It was a happy February 15, 2020 for 243 Indonesian citizens (WNI), who returned to their families after being in ...

102 specimens of suspected COVID-19 patients tested negative: Minister

Indonesia's Health Ministry has declared 102 out of 104 specimens of suspected coronavirus patients negative, while ...

Indonesia plans to set up special facility for contagious diseases

Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto highlighted the government’s plan to build a special facility to handle ...

Avoid direct contact with anthracis spores: veterinarian

To contain the spread of anthrax, a veterinarian at the Jenderal Soedirman University (Unsoed) has called on farmers ...

Gunung Kidul was declared anthrax outbreak area by Health Ministry

The Indonesian Health Ministry had declared an anthrax outbreak status in Gunung Kidul District, Yogyakarta Province, ...

Gunung Kidul ever ravaged by anthrax epidemic: Indonesian official

Gunung Kidul District in Yogyakarta Province often experienced the anthrax cases because it had ever been ravaged by ...

Health Ministry warns of emerging infectious diseases

Indonesia`s Health Ministry has called on the public to increase awareness against the emerging infectious disease and ...

News focus - Anticipating dengue fever in rainy season by Otniel Tamindael

People across Indonesia should give serious attention to the outbreak of dengue fever, because the acute infectious ...

News Focus - Papua, West Papua remain at risk of elephantiasis l

Lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, has been a public health problem in Indonesia for a long time, with ...

S Korean man infected by MERS virus, first case in 3 years

A South Korean man, 61, was diagnosed with the potentially deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and is ...

Health Ministry prepares 28 referral hospitals for Asian Games

The Health affairs Ministry has prepared 28 major referral hospitals in four provinces to anticipate the handling of ...

Indonesia aims to be free of malaria by 2020

Indonesia, with almost half of its population residing in malaria-endemic areas, aims to be free of the mosquito-borne ...

FAO to help eliminate zoonosis in Indonesia

Agriculture Ministry and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations have chosen four areas in ...

Zika vaccine shows promise in early human trial

A DNA-based Zika vaccine from Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc and South Koreas GeneOne Life Science Inc induced anti-Zika ...

RI, US strengthen cooperation to overcome global epidemic

Indonesia and the US have strengthened cooperation against the threat of global disease outbreaks through the ...