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Experts advise against the use of unverified remedies against Covid-19

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  The World Health Organization ( WHO ) and the Pan American Health Organization ( PAHO ) advised,  in the midst of the global health crisis,  against the use of many drugs popularized in  Latin America  to deal with the  Covid-19 disease,  such as carbon dioxide chlorine, Ivermectin, Moringa tea, Ginger and Arsenicum album. Vaccination plans in Latin America against Covid-19 are  slow , but despite the fact that the cure for the virus is already real, among family members or groups of friends they continue to bet on other options to avoid getting infected. The use of homemade and natural solutions against COVID-19 Chlorine dioxide  (CIO2) is also called "miracle mineral solution" and is basically the mixture of sodium chlorite in distilled water with an acid that can be the juice of a lemon and that, when taken, becomes an oxidizing agent which apparently destroys  bacteria and pathogens  in the human body. For its part,  Iv...

Life and work of the Doctor Arnoldo Gabaldón

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Arnoldo Gabaldón was a doctor, researcher and teacher, considered one of the most important epidemiologists of the   20th century . He developed a program against   malaria   that eliminated the disease in two thirds of the Venezuelan territory. Gabaldón was born in 1909 in the state of  Trujillo  and at the age of 15 he traveled to  Caracas  to study Medicine at the  Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) . In 1930 he traveled to  Europe , where he obtained the malariology certificate awarded by the  Institute of Tropical Diseases in Hamburg  (Germany). In 1936 he returned and founded the  Special Directorate of Malariology  of the Ministerio de Sanidad y Asistencia Social. As director, Gabaldón designed a malaria eradication strategy based on the training of personnel, the improvement of the housing system and the application of insecticides. In 1959, he assumed the leadership of the Ministerio de Sanidad y de Asistencia...

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