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Developed in Argentina, in collaboration with scientists in Australia and New Zealand, was presented today the first vaccine against hydatid disease, a disease caused by a parasite that affects livestock, but which is then transmitted to humans. The country reported 450 cases of hydatid disease a year, making the main zoonotic disease in Argentina.

In humans, hydatid disease is characterized by the formation of cysts in different organs, primarily in the liver and lung, and rarely in the brain. Although patients may present as an asymptomatic infection for years, cysts containing the parasite Echinococcus granulosus larvae grow to affect organs and can cause complications that require medical or surgical treatment.

Providence Hidatil EG95 vaccine, with the approval of SENASA, provides up to 100% protection to livestock (mainly sheep and goats), which can cut the transmission cycle of the parasite.

"This vaccine is a hope for the 500,000 children living in areas at risk of transmission of hydatid disease," said Oscar Jensen, Department of Health Research of the Ministry of Health of the Province of Chubut, during the presentation of the vaccine.

The event also participated Barañao Lino, Minister of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, Lorenzo Basso, Secretary of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Minister of Industry Debora Giorgi ..

After six years of work, the Royal Academy of Medicine (RANM) presented the First Great Dictionary of Medical Terms in Spanish.

"Society speaks and lives in Spanish, and with it their health professionals had long been demanding a reference work that provides guidance on the increasingly complex world of medical language," he said yesterday in Madrid RANM president and Latin American head of the Association of National Academies of Medicine, Manuel Díaz-Rubio.

It is the first of its kind that incorporates features of the medical terms and Latin American Spanish, English equivalents include common errors and alert.

So as not to be confused salmonella (bacteria) with salmonellosis (the disease), or "euthanasia" with "assisted suicide" or will need to talk about "rash" and can say "rash" or "rash".

The dictionary, which takes into account the reality of Spain and Latin American countries, is also presented as "a tool to bridge the gap between medical professionals and citizens."

The public health system in Santiago del Estero is collapsed from Quad months ago that the governor of northern province, Gerardo Zamora, suffered a blow today by the workers.

At constant force measures taken by public health workers today joined him to resign the leadership of the Regional Hospital's medical staff Ramon Carrillo, the largest provincial health center.

The director and the heads of Regional Service today submitted their resignations following the challenges facing the local public health system, whose staff are pursuing measures to force by wage demands and labor.

The resigning director of Trauma Services, Carlos Scaglione, said "there is a downgrade of the entire chain of natural controls of the hospital"

"The pay for all health workers is simply pauper" he said in a statement released by the Trade Union Federation of Health Professionals in Argentina (Fesprosa)

"In the history of the hospital's salary was never so low and so minimal in relation to other employment sectors. It is imperative to stop this state of chaos and restore the hospital with the concepts and postulates of Ramon Carrillo, "said the expert.

Fesprosa said that before the conflict the government of Gerardo Zamora responded only with dismissal, suspension, salary deductions and transfers of the officials who are demanding a better position to provide appropriate care to those most in need. "

Of the 8,000 workers in the system, 5,600 are in precarious conditions of employment.

Complaint to the ILO

Last week the governor of Santiago del Estero, was reported today to the International Labor Organization "persecution of association" to public health workers in the province, in the context of the conflict being carried out by seeking higher pay and working.

The complaint was held at the headquarters of the international organization in the City of Buenos Aires FESPROSA, said in a statement the owner, Jorge Yabkowski

The leader said the president "chose to move and pursue those who put the body to give answers to thousands of people whose only recourse the public health system" and noted that health workers in the province carry out measures Force four months ago, demanding better pay and working.