Sociedad

Diseases affecting the retina, the part of the eye responsible for vision, can significantly impact quality of life, causing anything from visual distortions to severe vision loss if not treated in time. Among the most common are age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy, and retinal detachment. In this context, advances are changing the approach to these pathologies and improving their prognosis, as explained by Dr. José García-Arumí, ophthalmologist at IMO Grupo Miranza.

The Mutua Madrid Open is one of the most important tennis events of the year. Each edition, the Caja Mágica fills with thousands of spectators, with dozens of brands making an appearance. This year, Haier has chosen another way to become visible: for the audience to truly experience innovation, precision, and social commitment.

The DANA in Valencia on October 29, 2024, left a deep psychological impact on many minors. This impact has forced schools to implement therapeutic actions to manage trauma in the classrooms. Care that has been carried out alongside the reconstruction of the facilities damaged by the flooding.

The journalist from La Vanguardia specialized in science and health, Josep Corbella, shares with readers the status of the evolution of hantavirus cases detected on the MV Hondius cruise ship. As he emphasizes, this is a virus “that has great difficulty transmitting between people,” so “we can be calm, because there is no risk that hantavirus will spread uncontrollably around the world.”

Although Argentina formalized its exit from the World Health Organization (WHO) last March 19, a year after having communicated its intention to leave this organization, the hantavirus outbreak detected on the Hondius cruise ship, which had departed from the Argentine town of Ushuaia, does not have a direct relationship with the resignation to coordinate health efforts with the rest of the countries, because there has not been enough time for the negative consequences that it may have in the longer term to develop. Already last year, Argentina was the country in the region that had reported the highest number of hantavirus infection cases, with 66, from November to January 2025.

Everything starts on the island of Saint Helena and ends in different places around the world. The Hondius made a stop at this British enclave in the Atlantic. Around 40 people got off there, according to Dutch authorities confirmed this Thursday. They did not continue the journey on the cruise ship.

The outbreak detected on the MV Hondius cruise ship is an example of a public health event with international scope and attention. It is not, in any case, a public health emergency, like Covid-19 was, for example. On board the cruise ship, with more than 140 passengers and 70

Last week, a letter that the dean of the Faculty of Political and Administrative Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) sent to his first and second-year students was made public, in which he expressed his concern about their lack of interest in classes.

The 14 Spanish passengers traveling aboard the Hondius will be evacuated at the port of Granadilla de Abona, south of Tenerife, from where they will be flown to Madrid to be admitted to the Central Defense Hospital Gómez Ulla. All of them will undergo quarantine in a special isolation unit of this hospital center that was adapted after the 2014 Ebola crisis. Before flying from Tenerife South-Reina Sofía airport to the peninsula, the travelers will be medically evaluated in the Canary Islands.

The authorities of Switzerland have confirmed a case of hantavirus in their country, amid a health crisis due to an outbreak of this pathogen on the cruise ship Hondius. The man is hospitalized in Zurich, where he is receiving medical care.