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02/12/2024
Snakebites: Life-saving facts
Did you know that one person dies every four minutes from snakebite? What should you do if you get bitten?
https://www.who.int/podcasts/episode/science-in-5/episode–125—snakebites–life-saving-facts
Alarm over rising antibiotic resistance
Can you imagine a world where several bacterial infections cannot be treated? Minor surgery carries the risk of incurable sepsis, and childbirth infections become untreatable. Is this where the world is headed?
https://nation.africa/kenya/health/alarm-over-rising-antibiotic-resistance-4771782
How Kenya’s debt crisis is undermining the fight against HIV
The report titled “Domestic Revenues, Debt Relief, and Development Aid: Transformative pathways for ending AIDS by 2030” shows that financing has become much more challenging for countries to provide care for HIV patients.
https://nation.africa/kenya/health/how-kenya-s-debt-crisis-is-undermining-fight-against-hiv-4771776
Governments progress on negotiations for a pandemic agreement to boost global preparedness for future emergencies
Government-led negotiations on the world’s first agreement to protect people from future pandemics made significant progress during the latest round of discussions that ended today at the World Health Organization (WHO).
WHO at UNGA: Call for urgent, high-level action to address global scourge of antimicrobial resistance
The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners will call on world leaders to address critical global health challenges, and invest in global public health.
FIFA and the World Health Organization launched a global concussion awareness campaign
Knowing the signs and symptoms of suspected concussion and how to protect players can help to make the game safer for all.
The cancers with the longest treatment waits revealed
Patients with cancers affecting the head and neck and bowel are the most likely to face long waits – just over half are seen within the target of 62 days.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy948p4j5wo
Moderate coffee and caffeine consumption is associated with lower risk of developing multiple cardiometabolic diseases, new study finds
Consuming moderate amounts of coffee and caffeine regularly may offer a protective effect against developing multiple cardiometabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroke, according to new research
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240917125341.htm
Vaccines for mpox are finally reaching Africa. But questions about the virus remain
When the virus that causes mpox jumped onto the international stage in 2022, countries around the world, including the United States, turned to vaccines targeting the closely related smallpox virus to curb its spread. Yet it wasn’t until 2024 that Africa, the continent where the virus emerged and first began spreading among people, received its first doses.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mpox-africa-vaccines-outbreak-virus
Some bacteria in your mouth can divide into as many as 14 cells at once
The unique reproductive strategy might allow the bacteria to claim territory quickly
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bacteria-unique-mouth-division
Understanding complicated grief
Grief is a complex emotional response to loss.
https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/magazines/healthy-living/understanding-complicated-grief-4763924
Children with diabetes wrongfully treated for malaria, taken to witchdoctors
Health workers have been asked to be keen in checking blood glucose for every child who reports to the hospital with any health complaint.
