{"id":8360,"date":"2025-08-16T01:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T22:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/?p=8360"},"modified":"2025-08-16T01:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T22:17:31","slug":"latest-global-health-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/latest-global-health-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Global Health Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Latest Global Health Updates<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source: Medscape Medical News, July\u2013August 2025<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1. WHO\u2019s First Global Arbovirus Guidelines<\/div>\n<div>Giuliana Miranda \u2013 July 25, 2025<\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Diseases like dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and yellow fever are now spreading beyond tropical areas because of climate change, urban growth, population increase, and more travel.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Over 5.6 billion people are at risk.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 WHO has released its first global guidelines to help doctors diagnose and treat these diseases, especially in places with limited labs or hospital resources.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 The main carriers are Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, now appearing in new parts of the world.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2. Arboviruses Spreading in Europe:<\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Dengue, chikungunya, and Zika are no longer just tropical diseases \u2014 they are now being reported in parts of Europe.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 In the last 20 years, their spread has grown, reaching non-endemic areas like the Mediterranean.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 From 2021 to 2024, Europe saw more locally acquired dengue cases, and mosquito and tick species are moving further north and west.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3. Economic Risk from Chronic Diseases in South America<\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 From 2020\u20132050, chronic diseases (like diabetes and heart disease) and mental health problems could cost as much as the total yearly GDP of all Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 This is due to high healthcare costs and lost productivity.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 PAHO says stronger primary care and health promotion can reduce the damage.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>4. New Lyme Disease Blood Test<\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 A new blood test using machine learning and a special lab method can detect Lyme disease with over 90% accuracy at all stages.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 It was tested on 308 blood samples and presented at a major lab medicine conference in Chicago.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Lyme disease is spread by ticks and affects about 476,000 people each year in the US.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Detecting it early is important, but has always been a challenge for doctors.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/click.mail.medscape.com\/?qs=ab04f179c0151867cba6b784aae1d909eb26d87a81074acdcb53c45777a7dc33c1ef87636ca64e2473a66e77eb99fccec2258c6abbfcbf58b09bba4c8837126c\">https:\/\/click.mail.medscape.com\/?qs=ab04f179c0151867cba6b784aae1d909eb26d87a81074acdcb53c45777a7dc33c1ef87636ca64e2473a66e77eb99fccec2258c6abbfcbf58b09bba4c8837126c<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest Global Health Updates Source: Medscape Medical News, July\u2013August 2025 1. WHO\u2019s First Global Arbovirus Guidelines Giuliana Miranda \u2013 July 25, 2025 \u2022 Diseases like dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and yellow fever are now spreading beyond tropical areas because of climate change, urban growth, population increase, and more travel. \u2022 Over 5.6 billion people are at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8361,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360\/revisions\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}