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A rural Ugandan community is a hot spot for sickle cell disease. But one patient gives hope
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 22 hours agoBarbara Nabulo cleans clothes at her home in Busamaga-Mutukula village in Mbale, Uganda, Thursday, April 25, 2024. There can be lifelong challenges for people with sickle ...
Fauci House Committee
Anacortes American· 7 days agoFILE - Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies during a hearing in Washington, Sept. 14, 2022....
New curative therapy brings hope for the treatment of nodding syndrome
Medical Xpress· 6 days agoRecent research into the origins of nodding syndrome linked it to infection with a parasite responsible for the disease onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness.
Millions in South Africa Grow Old With HIV in Health-Spending Time Bomb
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 1 day ago(Bloomberg) -- Yvette Alta Raphael radiates vitality and she isn’t old. But she grapples with...
Programme Managers’ Meeting for the Elimination of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Eastern Africa
World Health Organization· 3 days agoRepresentatives from Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and ...
Looking Beyond the Lens of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in Africa
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· 3 days agoCrimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is caused by a tickborne virus belonging to the genus Nairovirus within the family Bunyaviridae. The disease was first observed among ...
Ranked: the most critically endangered animals on the planet
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 5 days agoProgramme, that number has increased to over 1,000, split between the Virunga region of those three...
Congo: Paranoia Propels Plague Proliferation
Strategy Page· 4 days agoJuly 2, 2019: In eastern Congo (Ituri and North Kivu provinces) attacks on health care facilities and health care workers by rebels, bandits and suspicious local militias have severely hampered ...
HIV/AIDS Fast Facts
KEYT 3 Santa Barbara· 5 days agoCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the origins, treatments and global response to HIV and AIDS.FactsHIV stands for human
'Painting with light' illuminates photo evidence of air pollution
Science Daily· 5 days agoLarge variations in air pollution around the Port Talbot steelworks, in Wales -- air quality monitoring and light painting at dusk in summer measured PM2.5 concentrations in the range of 30- ...
