As you may know, PlanetSave posts important health stories as well as the popular science, nature, and climate reports weāre usually known for. (In fact, weāre working toward 500 health posts over these few years!) Today we excerptĀ from Examiner.comĀ some news that follows up our Ebola story and exclusive interview with public health expert Vince Silenzio […]
Ebola: And Senegal Makes Five Read More š
West Africa may even reach 1,000 deaths from Ebola this weekend. Thatās just a guess, but not a bad guess, considering the Olympic record of this hemorrhagic virus. At the beginning of July nearly 500 people had died from the disease; two weeks later, the numbers had increased by 20%,; and the most recent confirmedĀ figure,
Ebola Deaths May Reach Over 1,000 By Next Week (Exclusive Interview) Read More š
As I just wrote, one should really be thankful for bicyclists when they see them on the street, and for theĀ minusculeĀ amount of funding bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure gets. No matter if you bicycle or not, these bicyclists and the infrastructure that supports them is good for societal/public health. Now, a new tool fromĀ the World
WHO Tool Calculates Health Savings of Bicycle & Pedestrian Infrastructure Read More š
In the continuing controversy over the 2011 experiments with an ‘mutant’ strain of avian flu (H5N1) virus — making it airborne and potentially contagious to humans — lead virus researcher of growing notoriety, Ron Fouchier, told an audience of microbiologists that he did not believe that either the wild-type avian flu virus or his lab’s
'Doomsday Virus' Not as Lethal as Feared, Researcher Now Claims Read More š
An old disease is making a return with a vengeance. New strains of the tuberculosis bacterium are emerging that are resistant to more than one antibiotic drug, These Multidrug Resistant TB (MDR-TB) strains are spreading at an “alarming rate” in Eastern and Western Europe, according to a recent World Health Organization report. The organization is expected to endorse an action plan to stop the spread from becoming a pandemic which could kill tens of thousands and cost billions in treatment. Meanwhile, super-resistant strains of other kinds of microbes seem to be on the rise as well. Two additional examples of these emerging, antibiotic resistant bacteria are presented.
Millions of people in Bangladesh have been poisoned with arsenic, due to well-meaning efforts of international development groups. [social_buttons] Apparently, this is not a new problem or newly acknowledged problem, but a new report out by the British medical journal The Lancet finds that 77 million people in Bangladesh are exposed to arsenic in their
Study: 77 Million in Bangladesh Have Arsenic in Their Drinking Water Read More š
