'Pandemic' Asks: Is A Disease That Will Kill Tens Of Millions Coming? National Public Radio i | Ebola virus particles (blue) emerge from a chronically infected African green monkey cell. NIAID/Flickr hide caption | toggle caption NIAID/Flickr | Ebola virus particles (blue) emerge from a chronically infected African green monkey cell. NIAID/...
Water Shortage Exposes Pupils to Cholera All Africa [Citizen] Mwanza -Over 2,500 pupils at Buswelu and Kaselya primary schools in Ilemela District are at risk of contracting cholera and other waterborne diseases due to the scarcity of water facing the learning institutions. ... ...
Resolve challenges of National Health Scheme — Dr Samuel Kwashie Graphic The reimbursement has been delayed for about 11 months now for some facilities, a situation which is crippling the smooth operation of the health sector in the region. | The Central Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Samuel Kwashie, sa...
Infectious diseases kill 16,744 Chinese in 2015 China Daily BEIJING -- A total of 16,744 people died as a result of infectious diseases on the Chinese mainland in 2015, according to official data revealed on Thursday. | In 2015, there were more than 6.4 million cases of infectious diseases reported on the mai...
Smelting the pig iron of commerce Otago Daily Times For some time Messrs J. A. and W. P. Heskett and Mr S. E. Fraser have been experimenting with a process for the smelting of Taranaki ironsand into the pig iron of commerce. | A syndicate, known as the Heskett Syndicate, has been formed, and between Â...
How the Idea of a ‘Normal’ Person Got Invented The Atlantic Joe Chan / Reuters | Adolphe Quetelet was born in Belgium in 1796. At age 23 he received the first doctorate in mathematics ever awarded by the University of Ghent. Smart and hungry for recognition, he wanted to make a name for himself like one of hi...
Is this the world's most dangerous fireworks festival? CNN Tainan, Taiwan (CNN)Along a narrow street in the Yanshui district of Tainan, in southwest Taiwan, an oddly dressed crowd of thousands huddle together. | Each wears a spacesuit-style costume cobbled together from junkyard finds: a motorcycle helmet, l...
1 Million Kids In Africa Need Help Amid El Niño Drought Huffington Post BARCELONA, Feb 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly 1 million children need treatment for severe malnutrition in eastern and southern Africa due to drought that is putting millions more at risk of hunger, water shortages and disease, the U.N. chi...
UNICEF: Malnutrition mounts in eastern and southern Africa as El Ni̱o takes hold United Nations Print | 17 February 2016 РAcross eastern and southern Africa, millions of children are at risk from malnutrition, hunger, water shortages and disease, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned today, citing two years of erratic rain...
Zanzibar Village Impresses WHO in Containing Cholera All Africa [Daily News] Zanzibar -Uroa village in South Unguja Region has been praised for its workable initiatives in combating cholera outbreak. At least 127 people were reported to have contracted the killer disease, however, after they were diagnosed, 12 pe...
Are You a Toxic Waste Disposal Site? Sydney Morning Herald Regardless of where you live, there are toxic chemicals in your home. For that matter, in you. | Scientists have identified more than 200 industrial chemicals - from pesticides, flame retardants, jet fuel - as well as neurotoxins like lead in th...
