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A rural Ugandan community is a hot spot for sickle cell disease. But one patient gives hope
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 1 day 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 ...
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.
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...
Millions in South Africa Grow Old With HIV in Health-Spending Time Bomb
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 2 days ago(Bloomberg) -- Yvette Alta Raphael radiates vitality and she isn’t old. But she grapples with...
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 – KION546
KION 46 Salinas· 5 days agoAcute infection, or acute retroviral syndrome, which can produce flu-like symptoms in the first month after infection. Clinical latency, or asymptomatic...
'Painting with light' illuminates photo evidence of air pollution
Science Daily· 6 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- ...
STD Prevention Pill
Anacortes American· 6 days agoFILE - A pharmacist holds a bottle of the antibiotic doxycycline hyclate in Sacramento, Calif., July 8, 2016. The Centers for Disease Control and...
