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Cuban First Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel praised the success of the 13th ‘Health for All’ International Trade Fair and the International Convention on Public Health ‘CubaSalud 2015’,which concluded Friday in Havana.»

The Cuban Center for Molecular Immunology and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in New York on Tuesday signed an agreement to export to the USA a lung cancer vaccine developed on the island.»

The International Convention “Cuba-Salud 2015” and the Trade Fair Health for All begin activities this Monday in Havana, to debate and show progresses in this sphere.»

All Cuban health professionals working in Sierra Leone fighting Ebola epidemics have returned after staying for six months in that African nation, media stressed today.»

The Second International Course for the prevention and fighting Ebola runs from Monday until next Saturday at Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK) in Havana.»

Of the 1 150 babies admitted in the neonatology ward of Sancti Spiritus maternity hospital last year, only eight couldn’t make it.»

Cuba implemented a National Plan for Prevention and Confrontation of Ebola virus to avoid its entrance and dissemination in the country, Gramma newspaper reported.  »

Cuba ended 2014 with a rate of 4.2 per thousand live births, so that the country remains with the lowest infant mortality rate in its history, Granma newspaper reported.»

With an infant mortality rate (IMR) of 3,5 deaths per 1 000 live births in 2014, Sancti Spiritus is once again placed among the Cuban provinces with best results in this important health indicator.»

Domo de Zaza natural site has been declared Local Monument by the National Heritage Commission, taking into consideration its paleontological values.»