health threat Articles
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Special report health case study
co2balance special report on the health effects of indoor smoke pollution from unregulated indoor cook stoves. Pneumonia accounts for nearly one fifth of childhood deaths worldwide, with approximately 2 million children under five dying each year. The majority of deaths occur in Africa and South-East Asia. Source WHO/ UNICEF. Acute lower respiratory infections {pneumonia) fn young children are ...
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Ozette’s AI in the battle against Covid - Case study
Summary The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic began in 2019 and rapidly scaled to a global presence of disease known as COVID-19. Despite the relatively fast implementation of testing and vaccination worldwide, the rise of emerging viral variants and breakthrough infections raises concerns that SARS-CoV-2 will continue to pose a global health threat. ...
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Education’s Role in Fighting Infectious Diseases
Misinformation can have a profound impact on public health, experts say that education might be the key to combating it. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), immunization saves millions of lives each year. But given that many are still hesitant to get vaccinated for COVID-19, it is apparent that we are amidst an ‘infodemic’. “We’re not just battling ...
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Helping Hands: Pipette’s Sustainable Hand Sanitizer.
While COVID-19 cases are thankfully beginning to decline and we are returning to some semblance of “normal,” it was only a year ago that hospitals were overcrowded, convenient store shelves were empty, and a general sense of uncertainty loomed. At a time when many people were unable to access basic cleaning items, like hand sanitizer, antibacterial soap, and disinfectant wipes, ...
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Fighting COVID-19 and Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
What is Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB)? Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB), is an opportunistic pathogen primarily associated with hospital-acquired infections. Acinetobacterbaumannii can cause infections in the urinary tract, blood, lungs, and in wound. It can also live in a patient without causing infections or symptoms- this is especially common in ...
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Climate Communication in the Time of COVID-19
Communicating about climate change has never been easy. The subject is complex, marred by uncertainties and tends to evoke emotionally and politically charged responses. How then do we talk about climate change as the global community grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic today? How do we do this in a post-pandemic world? In the last few years, climate change moved to the centre stage of global ...
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Pediatric benefits fact sheet
Because children have more delicate immune systems than adults, water contaminants pose a more serious threat to the young. Drinking only the highest quality water is one way that parents can contribute to keeping their children healthy, even before they are born. Pregnant women need to be especially careful of the water they drink. Certain levels of some water contaminants such as lead, nitrate ...
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Combatting the Opioid Crisis with Cell Therapies for Chronic Back Pain
It’s no secret that opioid addiction is at an all-time high and represents a major public health threat. The CDC estimates that opioid addiction resulted in a record 72,000 drug overdose deaths in 2017 alone. What strikes me as one of the most tragic parts of this narrative is that so many of these deaths were people who became addicted to opioids after simply seeking relief ...
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Coronavirus Pandemic Likely Caused by Lab Leak
The coronavirus pandemic that could have been prevented After creating widespread global devastation and panic, the origin of the coronavirus pandemic has largely remained a mystery. Now, new information has emerged that reinforces a claim that it somehow began spreading in Wuhan, China. Citing a classified intelligence report provided to the White ...
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SOLUTIONS LIKE ECOPACK, SOLUTION FOR THE WASTE CRISIS IN TIMES OF CORONAVIRUS.
As the World moves towards controlling the COVID-19 pandemic with the distribution of vaccines, another concern (and the threat to Health) takes more and more force even in the background: how to process a new wave of contamination, with plastic waste as the main protagonists.At the beginning of April 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) pointed out, for the first time, the effectiveness of ...
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Solutions Like Ecopack, Solution For The Waste Crisis In Times Of Coronavirus.
As the World moves towards controlling the COVID-19 pandemic with the distribution of vaccines, another concern (and the threat to Health) takes more and more force even in the background: how to process a new wave of contamination, with plastic waste as the main protagonists. At the beginning of April 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) pointed out, for the first time, the effectiveness ...
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Status of EMT Preparedness for Terrorist Attack
New York University’s Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response released a report today titled Emer-gency Medical Services: The Forgotten First Responder, that highlights the deficiencies in funding, training, and equipment that could prohibit emergency medical services (EMS) personnel from responding to a major terrorist attack. EMS providers, such as fire departments and ...
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Better health for all
Ensuring basic health care for people in low-income countries is critical to the Plan B goal of eradicating poverty and stabilizing population. While heart disease and cancer (largely the diseases of aging), obesity, and smoking dominate health concerns in industrial countries, in developing countries infectious diseases are the overriding health concern. Besides AIDS, the principal diseases of ...
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Removal of antibiotics and pharmaceutical residues in water urgent
According to the WHO, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest threats to health and food safety. It is increasingly evident that antibiotics, resistant micro-organisms, and their resistance genes are spreading invisibly through water. It is important that we tackle AMR effectively in water too. Antibiotics and other medicines will continue to play a key role in our everyday lives, ...
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It’s time for the health care industry to raise its voice on climate change
It’s time for the health care industry to raise its voice on climate change The new Clean Power Plan, stunning in its audacity, will undoubtedly face many hurdles in the coming years. Yet already it has achieved something no other major climate initiative has been able to do. It has reframed the climate conversation to put the focus squarely on the health of humans. Of course, this ...
By Ensia
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Why COVID-19 Might Not be the ‘Big One’ - and What We Can Do to Prepare
As vaccine rollouts take place in many countries around the world, it feels like the globe will soon be able to take a collective sigh of relief that this pandemic could nearly be over. However, the reality may not be so simple. Leading scientists including the chair of the WHO’s strategic and technical advisory group for infectious hazards expect that SARS-CoV-2 will become endemic, ...
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Environmental threats to children's health – a global problem
Today's children are exposed to a wide range of environmental threats, whose consequences on health and development may appear early in life, throughout their youth and even later, in adulthood. Health problems linked to environmental hazards are multiplying and becoming more visible due to a rapidly changing environment, rapid population growth, overcrowding, fast industrialisation and ...
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Antibiotic-resistance and virulence genes in
Enterococcus isolated from tropical recreational watersThe prevalence of enterococci harboring tetracycline- and vancomycin-resistance genes, as well as the enterococcal surface protein (esp) has mostly been determined in clinical settings, but their prevalence in tropical recreational waters remains largely unknown. The present study determined the prevalence of tetM (tetracycline-resistance), vanA and vanB (vancomycin-resistance) in the bacterial ...
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Indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants and challenges in developing ethnoharmacology in Africa: example of Oku, Cameroon
Most traditional African cultures believe that, to maintain the health and vitality of human beings, they have to address forces in both the natural and the spiritual world. This paper uses a participatory approach to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the traditional health system. It presents some concepts and practices, some characteristics of indigenous knowledge ...
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Blue skies, high anxiety
Americans are driving more miles, using more energy, and producing more goods and services than ever. But at the same time, the air quality in America’s cities is better than it has been in more than a century—despite the fact that the U.S. population has almost quadrupled and real GDP has risen by a factor of nearly thirty.NYC Sky 1But Americans aren’t aware of this good news—or don’t believe ...
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