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Health Ministry calls for quick response over DHF breakout

Director of Prevention and Control of Vector and Zoonotic Diseases, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, urged health care facilities ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Right actions to prevent zoonotic diseases

World Zoonoses Day is observed on July 6 every year to emphasize and bring public awareness of the problem and teach ...

Malaria remains endemic in Indonesia

Thousands of people in the Indonesian provinces of Papua, West Papua, East Nusa Tenggara, Maluku, and North Maluku are ...

Dengue cases reported in Pekanbaru

The Health Office of Pekanbaru City in Riau Province has reported 78 dengue cases since Jan 2017. "Seventy-eight ...

Many Brazilian women avioding pregnancy due to zika fears

Brazil should urgently review its reproductive health policies, scientists said on Friday, to support the more than 50 ...

Three districts in Papua to conduct elephantiasis treatment

Only three districts in Indonesias easternmost province of Papua will carry out mass treatment against the lymphatic ...

Elephantiasis disease targeted in 12 districts in Papua

Residents in some 12 districts in Indonesias easternmost province of Papua are at risk of contracting lymphatic ...

Tightening zika virus surveillance at Indonesian ports

Many countries, including Indonesia, are reeling under the scare of Zika virus that has spread rapidly in American and ...

Ex-health minister suggests investigation over Zika outbreak in Southeast Asia

Former health minister Siti Fadilah Supari has suggested conducting an investigation over the Zika virus outbreak in ...

Government confirms Indonesian affected by Zika in Singapore

The Indonesian government has confirmed that its citizen has contracted the Zika virus in Singapore, according to a ...

Indonesian researchers breed anti-dengue mosquitoes

Indonesian researchers from Gadjah Mada University, in collaboration with Eliminate Dengue Project (EDP) Yogayakarta ...