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The long feared nightmare of U.S. public health officials has come to pass with the news anti-biotic resistant Gonorrhea has been detected in North American patients. A study released today by the Journal of the American Medical Association announced it had found nine patients with a strain of the sexually transmitted disease immune to the last remaining effective oral antibiotic. This confirms the fears of both the Centers for Disease Control and [...] Emily Allen The World Health Organisation, which bills itself as ‘impartial’, has been taking hundreds of thousands of pounds from the fast-food industry to help fill black holes in its budget to tackle obesity, it has emerged. WHO works on behalf of 194 nations to tackle disease like malaria and AIDS but also battle on-going problems like diabetes and heart disease caused by chronic problems like obesity. But now it has [...] The number of people with Ebola, a rare haemorrhagic disease, in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has tripled since mid-August, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday, after 14 patients died in two weeks. On September 1, doctors were looking into 30 likely or suspected cases, including seven in which patients tested positive for the Ebola virus. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/ebola-caseload-soars-eastern-dr-congo-174349253.html Sixteen people are reported dead in Uganda from a mystery illness. The Uganda publication UG Pulse reports that a strange illness, cause unknown, is spreading in the Kibaale district in western Uganda. http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=EH-20120726-35941-UGA
Hundreds of holidaymakers have cancelled trips to Uganda following an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. At least 16 people have been killed by the disease, and 20 more are thought to be infected, with cases occurring in the Kibale [...] Ebola outbreak in Uganda claims at least 14 lives as health officials battle to stem spread of deadly virus Terrified patients fled from a hospital in western Uganda as soon as news broke that a mysterious illness that killed at least 14 people in the region was Ebola, one of the world’s most virulent diseases. Ignatius Besisira, an MP for Buyaga East County in the Kibaale district, said people had at first believed the unexplained [...] The country’s health ministry announced July 4 that it was working with the World Health Organization to actively investigate the cause of the deaths. Preliminary findings had identified 74 cases, the World Health Organization said in a July 6 statement, with the majority of the patients hospitalized in the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital in Phnom Penh. “We have now to see what really is causing the deadly pulmonary complication and see [...] What is odd about this mystery illness is its age-restricted characteristic–I only see mention of children 7 and under that have died. The failure to detect what is causing these diseases is what bugs the hell out of me. http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_summary&edis_id=EH-20120703-35650 The Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Cambodia has notified WHO of an outbreak of an undiagnosed illness which has affected 62 children, of which 61 have died since April 2012. Cambodia Undiagnosed [...] The “undiagnosed syndrome” has killed 61 of the 62 children admitted to hospitals since April, but there’s no indication that is it spreading from person to person, said WHO spokeswoman Aphaluck Bhatiasevi. Read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070557234/National-news/probe-into-mystery-illness-ongoing.html
Investigations continued yesterday into the mystery illness that has caused the deaths of at least 60 children in Cambodia since April, but answers were not yet apparent, health officials said. A joint statement issued by the World Health Organisation and the Ministry [...] The A(H1N1) “swine flu” 2009 pandemic probably claimed over a quarter of a million lives — 15 times more than the 18,500 reported, a paper in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal said Tuesday. The elevated toll underlined the need for better planning and vaccine distribution, said a team of epidemiologists and physicians who made a statistical model based on population and infection estimates to present what they believe is a more [...] [NEWS 6 June] A study led by Karolinska Institutet reports for the first time the positive effects of an active vaccine against Alzheimer’s disease. The new vaccine, CAD106, can prove a breakthrough in the search for a cure for this seriously debilitating dementia disease. The study is published in the distinguished scientific journal Lancet Neurology. Alzheimer’s disease is a complex neurological dementia disease that is the cause of much human suffering [...] Babies born to gonorrhea-infected mothers have 50 per cent chance of being blind A ‘super’ strain of untreatable [...] Drug-resistant strains of gonorrhoea have spread to countries across the world, the United Nations health agency says, and millions of patients may run out of treatment options unless doctors catch and treat cases earlier. Scientists reported last year finding a “superbug” strain of gonorrhoea in Japan in 2008 that was resistant to all recommended antibiotics and warned then that it could transform a once easily treatable infection into a global health threat. The World Health [...] An organ is sold once an hour, the World Health Organisation has warned, amid fears that the illegal trade is again on the rise. The U.N. public health body estimates that 10,000 organs are now traded every year, with figures soaring off the back of a huge rise in black market kidney transplants. Wealthy patients are paying up to £128,500 for a kidney to gangs, often in China, India and Pakistan, who [...] Guardian.co.uk The illegal trade in kidneys has risen to such a level that an estimated 10,000 black market operations involving purchased human organs now take place annually, or more than one an hour, World Health Organisationexperts have revealed. Evidence collected by a worldwide network of doctors shows that traffickers are defying laws intended to curtail their activities and are cashing in on rising international demand for replacement kidneys driven by the increase in [...] Indian drugs giant Cipla said Friday it has slashed by up to 76 percent prices of generic medicines used to treat brain, lung and kidney cancer in what the company called a “humanitarian move”. There are 2.5 million cases of cancer diagnosed in India each year, according to the World Health Organisation, with most patients receiving inadequate treatment as drugs are priced beyond their reach. “This initiative of price reduction is a humanitarian approach [...] Illness has baffled experts from the World Health Organisation A mystery disease is turning an increasing number of children in east Africa into zombies. The condition, known by locals as the ‘nodding disease’, drastically alters children’s personalities by making them withdrawn and confused. One of the first symptoms of the illness, affecting children in northern Uganda, Sudan and Tanzania, is that children appear to be falling asleep – their eyes close and head [...] Press TV New research has revealed that the number of British people who die due to fuel poverty is three times more than what the government has estimated, with campaigners calling the number “horrifying.” A research study carried out by fuel poverty expert Professor Christine Liddell of the University of Ulster has revealed that nearly 8,000 people die during winter as a result of fuel poverty, reported the Independent on Tuesday. The latest [...] From FT: Cities in Iran, India, Pakistan and the capital of Mongolia rank among the worst on the planet for air pollution, while those in the US and Canada are among the best, according to the first global survey, released on Monday by the World Health Organisation. The south-west Iranian city of Ahvaz has with the unfortunate distinction of having the highest measured level of airborne particles [...] Chinese condoms too small for South Africans A South African court has blocked the government from buying 11 million Chinese condoms, saying they are too small, a newspaper reported Friday. The finance ministry had awarded a contract to a firm called Siqamba Medical, which planned to buy the Phoenurse condoms from China, the Beeld newspaper said. A rival firm, Sekunjalo Investments Corporation, turned to the High Court in [...]
Brundtland, who led three Labour Party governments in the 1980s and 1990s and is often called “mother of the nation”, gave a speech on the island the day of the slaughter and left before Anders Behring Breivik arrived. “Anders Behring Breivik had plans to come to Utoeya (island) while Gro Harlem Brundtland was visiting on Friday, but claims under [...] Worldwide reports of iodine overdoses: WHO The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it has received reports of people being admitted to poison centres around the world after taking iodine tablets. Fears about harmful levels of radiation coming out of the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukishima has seen panic buying of iodine pills in many countries. Iodine is thought to protect the body’s thyroid and glandular system from [...] by ZH A helicopter was unable to drop water to cool the No.3 reactor at the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex in northeastern Japan probably because of the high radiation, Kyodo news agency said, quoting the defence minister. |
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