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The Buzz Off malaria training team have completed the first week of training in Yangon. 22 health care workers came together in Insein to be trained by the team. A great time was had by all. The training team includes nurses from Switzerland and England with other team members coming …
Buzz Off are sending a training team to Burma to run malaria training seminars in country for the whole of November 2016. The training team are from; Australia, England, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States. Burmese trainers will be joining us there and we will be running 4 seminars …
The Australian media is reporting that a rare strain of Dengue fever that is usually found in monkeys has been found in humans. A Queensland woman who was visting Brunei in 2014 contracted the rare strain of Dengue fever whilst there. It is the first reported case of this form …
In 2015 Buzz Off distributed over 7,000 LLIN nets into remote villages in regional Myanmar. This gives an estimated coverage to 21,000 people. In 2016 we are hoping to increase this to 10,000 LLIN nets. We cost each net at $10. These nets keep families safe from Malaria – you …
On February 5, 2016, Reuters reported that the Zika Virus has been spread through infected blood used for blood transfusions. So far the disease has also been spread through sexual contact, and animal bite, and on February 6, 2016, the first reports came though that Zika had been found in …
A few days ago we ran a news item on Zika virus and the warnings given by the WHO about it. The virus is thought to cause microcephaly and brain damage in babies, (as illustrated ). Since that article, new news about the disease has come to light that needs to …
A serious outbreak of Zika virus is emerging in North and South America. The World Health Organization (WHO) are predicting 4 million infections in 2016 in the Americas alone. WHO say that the disease was detected in the Americas last year, where it is now spreading “explosively”. As of late January …
Reports are still coming that Dengue Fever remains a serious problem on the Thai / Burmese border. The Thai Ministry of Health report that in 2015 141,375 cases were treated nationally with 141 confirmed deaths. Since the end of July 2015, on the Thai / Burmese border 39,597 cases of …
The second round of Buzz Off seminars in Myanmar for 2015 are completed. The team arrived in Yangon November 29 and will leave to return home again December 14. The first seminars of this round were run in the Irrawaddy the village of Udoe, where 52 people from the all …
The Buzz Off training team have arrived in Myanmar and are holding training courses near Ban-ta-naw in the Irrawaddy and next week in Mandalay where students are expected to come form many out lying areas. The Ban-ta-naw seminars are being held in the village of Udoe which is a 50 …
