Web Desk,March 27, 2023: The number of colorectal cancer — sometimes called colon cancer — in adults below 55 years has been increasing in the US since the 1990s and the reason behind this is unknown, CNN reported. Experts at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are urging that there is much yet to be done to study, treat and prevent this cancer …

United Nations, March 25, 2023: Humanity’s survival depends on how people manage water, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday at the end of a three-day conference on global water resources during which developing nations made urgent calls for help with cleaner drinking water and better sanitation. “All of humanity’s hopes for the future depend, in some way, on charting a …

NAIROBI, Kenya , March 24, 2023: Equatorial Guinea has confirmed another eight cases of the “highly virulent” Marburg virus, a deadly hemorrhagic fever with no authorized vaccine or treatment. The World Health Organization on Thursday said that brings the country’s total number of cases to nine in the outbreak declared in mid-February. There are two known current outbreaks of Marburg …

ISLAMABAD , March 23, 2023: Brazzaville/Dar es Salaam – Tanzania today confirmed its first-ever cases of Marburg Virus Disease after laboratory tests were carried out following reports of cases and deaths in the country’s north-west Kagera region. Tanzania’s National Public Health Laboratory analysed samples to determine the cause of illness after eight people developed symptoms including fever, vomiting, bleeding and …

DAR ES SALAAM, March 22, 2023: Tanzania has confirmed its first-ever cases of Marburg, a high-fatality viral hemorrhagic fever with symptoms broadly similar to those of Ebola, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. The WHO said in a late Tuesday statement that the confirmation of the disease by Tanzania’s national public laboratory followed the death of five of eight people …

Web Desk, March 21, 2023: Scientists have revealed in a study that “our mobile phones are carrying more harmful germs and bacteria similar to that of human faeces and toilets” which are spread as people touch their phones and then touch other things with the same hands, cited The Sun. SellCell study noted that “E.Coli and Faecal Streptococci were found …

LONDON, March 20, 2023: Some of the world’s leading makers of flu vaccines say they could make hundreds of millions of bird flu shots for humans within months if a new strain of avian influenza ever jumps across the species divide. One current outbreak of avian flu known as H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b has killed record numbers of birds and infected …

Web Desk, March 20, 2023: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed its concerns over the diseases that are caused by excessive salt intake, saying millions of people could die if governments did not take action and spread awareness to keep in check the sodium levels in food. The report, published in Washington Post, said that salty food is the …

Web Desk, March 18, 2023: Polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) — a type of human-made harmful chemicals — have been flowing probably in human veins and can likely be found on furniture, daily food and water causing cancers, liver disease, asthma, allergies and other health complications. This allowed US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to propose a rule to strictly limit …

Odense (Denmark) , March 17, 2023: Countless shelves line the walls of a basement at Denmark’s University of Odense, holding what is thought to be the world’s largest collection of brains. There are 9,479 of the organs, all removed from the corpses of mental health patients over the course of four decades until the 1980s. Preserved in formalin in large …