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BRASILIA New Orleans Pelicans E'Twaun Moore Jersey , Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- The economic impact on Latin America of the Zika virus has been estimated to reach 18 billion U.S. dollars from 2015 to 2017, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said here on Tuesday.

"Zika is responsible for tangible losses to gross domestic product, estimated to range from 7 billion to 18 billion U.S. dollars over 2015-2017 alone," according to a UNDP study.

The report, "A Socio-economic Impact Assessment of the Zika Virus in Latin America and the Caribbean," focuses on three of the countries worst hit by the mosquito-borne virus New Orleans Pelicans Jordan Crawford Jersey , Brazil, Colombia and Suriname.

Those losses impose "an immediate burden on health care and social welfare systems," but "more long-term, could undermine decades of hard-earned health gains and social development progress," the study warns.

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SYDNEY, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- An Australian study has found that 40 percent of adolescents with food allergies experience frequent allergic reactions.

The study, undertaken by Melbourne's Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI), found that of 547 children aged between 10 and 14 surveyed, 44 percent had experienced an allergic reaction in the past year.

Almost 10 percent reported enduring a potentially fatal anaphylactic reaction. Respondents reported that most reactions occurred at home E'Twaun Moore Pelicans Jersey , a finding lead author Vicki McWilliams said was surprising.

"This is in contrast to the assumption that schools and restaurants pose higher risk for accidental allergen exposure and may reflect the compulsory training around food allergy that has been in place in the Victorian educational sector since 2008," McWilliams said in a media release on Friday.

The study found that adolescents with allergies to two or more foods were twice as likely to experience an allergic reaction while those allergic to nuts went through the most severe reactions.

Those with asthma in addition to food allergies were not found to have an increased risk of severe allergic reactions.

The MCRI's Kate Allen said that teenagers and young adults were most at risk of dying from anaphylaxis but few studies had been done on them.

"We were astounded because people who have had a food allergy are meant to avoid the food ... and this suggests that in the community there's a bit of a tip-of-the-iceberg phenomenon," Allen told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

"There (are) certainly more reactions among those with food allergies than we had thought would be possible."

She said that precautionary food labels that warn consumers a product "may contain traces of nuts" could lead to complacency.

"We think the food industry wants to cover themselves and in fact that's doing a disservice to the consumer because the consumer is taking all of the risk ... in my view, it's become almost useless."

KIEV, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Ukraine's honey exports hit an all-time high in the first nine months of 2017 on the back of the increased demand in the United States and Europe, local media reported Wednesday Jordan Crawford Pelicans Jersey , citing an official from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

According to Anna Burka, the FAO consultant, Ukraine supplied abroad a record of 46,200 tons of honey worth 86.9 million U.S. dollars in January-September, becoming the world's fifth largest exporter of this product.

Nine out of 10 key importers of honey from Ukraine have increased purchases this year, Burka said.

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