Malaria Malaria has been infecting humans "for the entire history of the species"104 and existed in the Near East from Anatolia through the Levant and into HOW DISEASE AFFECTED THE END OF THE BRONZE AGE 95 the Nile in Egypt in the late Bronze Age, as it still does today. So it...
A fragile virus that can't survive outside the human body, HIV does not transmit through the air. It also can't be contracted like a cold or the flu from surface contact with, for instance, doorknobs or countertops. Its fragility makes the possibility of environmental transmission so remote...
As an endocrinologist, I consider the environmental factors that may affect our body, including EDCs. These powerful, small particles can interfere with many important physiological steps like the production, transportation and elimination of hormones; they can even mimic t...
How do drugs for the prevention of malaria in pregnant women affect fetal and infant outcomes?doi:10.1002/cca.679Juliana Ester Martin-LopezJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd
And given the most common location of infection is in Africa, malaria is often the first disease that health care workers diagnose. But then the disease quickly takes a turn for the worse. Patients start complaining of bloody diarrhea, severe sore throat, jaundice, vomiting and loss of ...
How does Ebola affect the respiratory system? How does Chagas disease affect the body? How does malaria affect the body? How do disease outbreaks occur? How does Chagas disease affect animals? How does a fever help the immune system?
negative impact on human health is that coastal regions are susceptible to flooding and storm surges that cause property damage and the population can be exposed to water-borne infections. In addition, freshwater can become contaminated with salt water which may affect agriculture and drinking water ...
Over the last few years, we've seen that rising temperatures and extreme weather events can significantly affect the health of people around the world.
A path to an optimal future for the Affordable Medicines Facility – malaria In this article, the authors discuss the debate on the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria (AMFm), an initiative aimed at making artemisinin-based combin... O Sabot,M Gordon,B Moonen,... - 《Health Policy & Plan...
There are vegans who think it's ok to eat oysters and mussels. I want to go a step farther: vegans should be ok with dairy. Specifically, under pretty conservative assumptions you do much more good donating just $5/year to the Against Malaria Foundation