Health alarm in Ceuta: a 19-year-old illegal immigrant with active and contagious chickenpox escapes from the hospital. (translated)
EXCLUSIVE: Rats, cockroaches, and scabies in the Reina Sofía nursing home in Madrid. A plague of rats has flooded the public nursing home Reina Sofía in Las Rozas (Madrid) for over a year, causing health problems for the residents. (translated)
EXCLUSIVE: Rats, cockroaches, and mange in the Reina Sofía nursing home in Madrid (translated)
Sadí de Buen, a prominent epidemiologist and advocate for public health, led a successful campaign against malaria in Spain from 1920 to 1936, but was executed by the Francoist regime in 1936, taking with him the progress made in the fight against this disease after the Civil War. (translated)
Sadí de Buen, el médico que impulsó la mayor campaña contra la malaria en España al que fusiló el franquismo
Ya han decidido el recorte del presupuesto de la universidad pública en el país y de la salud pública. Juventudes a defender la educación pública y la salud. #EducaciónPública #SaludPública #Juventud
According to a study by Anglia Ruskin University, men feel excluded from weight loss diets, which are often perceived as designed for women, leading many to believe that they do not meet their specific needs for losing weight. (translated)
Las dietas para adelgazar "no están hechas para los hombres"... o al menos así lo sienten ellos
The heatwaves in Spain this summer have caused more than 5,200 deaths, marking a historic high and highlighting the growing threat to public health. (translated)
Las olas de calor dejan más de 5.200 muertos este verano, el máximo histórico en España: "Son una amenaza creciente"
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has exceeded 6,000 infections and nearly 3,000 deaths, with a fatality rate of 48.2%, while authorities continue interventions in the six affected provinces. (translated)
El brote de ébola en la República Democrática del Congo roza ya los 3.000 muertos y más del doble de contagios
Two dead from measles this week in the US while Trump reverses vaccination policies. Those who bring back diseases we thought were eradicated are not the migrant people, but the anti-vaccine denialists. (translated)
Salud pública de calidad en el hospital municipal de Merlo. Basura, ratas, sin personal, virus intrahospitalarios, abandono de pacientes... El intendente Menendez no perdió 1 solo voto. https://t.co/luiHAqubd4 #SaludPública #Merlo #Hospitales
The General Council of Nursing has requested the prohibition of the sale and consumption of energy drinks to minors throughout Spain, warning about the health risks and proposing awareness campaigns to educate the population about these products. (translated)
El Consejo General de Enfermería pide prohibir la venta y consumo de bebidas energéticas a menores en toda España
The West Nile virus continues to rise in Andalusia, with a total of 59 human cases recorded in 2026, including three new severe cases in the provinces of Seville and Huelva, and a second related death has been reported. (translated)
El virus del Nilo sigue al alza en Andalucía y suma tres nuevos casos graves en las provincias de Sevilla y Huelva
The SER wants to bring to Spain the sick relatives of 1,500 Pakistani families so that the public health system can treat them here. I denounce this injustice because the current population of Pakistan is 259 billion, and they all have exactly the same rights as those. (translated)
Dr. Humberto De la Calle, por favor muéstrele al país el primer estudio de impacto que demuestre que ponerle impuestos a los alimentos ultra procesados y las bebidas azucaradas ha mejorado la salud y ha logrado que la gente consuma menos azúcar y otros. Gracias #SaludPública #Impuestos #AlimentaciónSaludable
My illness is cured by science, professionals, taxpayers, and a public health system that the international working class has fought for since the 1920s. Not that flag inherited from the coup d'état, from 40 years of dictatorship and repression, and from a half-hearted transition. (translated)
Spain obtained the label of "measles-free country" awarded by the WHO in 2016. In January 2026, the WHO removed our status as a measles-free country because cases jumped from 11 in 2023 to almost four hundred in 2025. But this idiot says that immigrants don't. (translated)
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Bathing is prohibited in five beaches of Cádiz due to the presence of fecal bacteria in the water, affecting areas of El Puerto de Santa María, Chipiona, Puerto Real, and Rota, until new analyses ensure their quality and safety. (translated)
Prohíben el baño en cinco playas de Cádiz al detectar bacterias fecales en el agua
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Two employees at Frankfurt Airport have died and four others have been hospitalized after contracting malaria from the bite of an infected mosquito that arrived on a plane, according to German health authorities. (translated)
Mueren de malaria dos empleados del aeropuerto de Frankfurt por la picadura de un mosquito infectado en un avión
An elderly person has passed away at the elderly residence in Tomares (Seville), which belongs to the Mimara group, benefited from the privatizations by Juanma Moreno of the PP. He died of dehydration after spending hours on a minibus. All control mechanisms failed. Privatization kills. (translated)
Twenty-eight neighborhoods in the Los Mateos neighborhood of Cartagena are reporting the presence of toxic polluting dust and alarming levels of heavy metals in the soil and in their homes, which poses a serious health risk, especially for children, while demanding information and protective measures from local authorities, who were already aware of the situation before purchasing the land for the construction of social housing. (translated)
Afectados por el polvo tóxico en Cartagena: "Hay sustancias cancerígenas contaminando las camas en las que duermen nuestros hijos"
