How Do You Eliminate or Eradicate an Infectious Disease?
The COVID-19 pandemic gave the world a crash course in epidemiology and showed in real time how an infectious disease can spread ...
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The Climate Is Changing: What This Means for Our Fight Against Infectious Diseases
In September 2020, the investigative podcast “Radiolab” published an episode exploring the story of a mysterious fungal infection appearing simultaneously ...
Air Pollution ‘Significantly Associated’ With Breast Cancer Incidence
Air pollution is already widely understood to impact both our environment and health. In an urbanised world, household combustible devices, ...
Experts Recommend Attention to Key Global Health Matters: Will It Make a Difference?
In existence since 2018, the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) was established as an independent body upon the recommendations of ...
Smoking Rates Have Fallen Globally But More People Still Die in Poor Countries
This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a report on tobacco control measures around the world, highlighting that 5.6 ...
What Is Aspartame and Is It A Health Hazard?
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization ...
Origin of Covid: A Mystery Resolved?
Updated March 22, with the news of warnings from the Global BioLabs Report 2023. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world ...
COVID Harms Attitudes to Health by the Public and Lawmakers
In most corners of the world, there is recognition that COVID has and continues to affect the health and survival ...
How Apple Could Change the Lives of Diabetics
A recent Bloomberg report has revealed what Apple has in store for the future in terms of the development of ...
A New One Health Global Action Plan is Out!
Responding to international requests to prevent future pandemics and to promote health sustainably through the One Health approach, four major ...
We Collectively Have Only One Health
What science knows and has long told us is the interconnection of humans, animals, and the environment, which is essentially ...
The Global Health System Needs More “Prevention” To Address Future Pandemics
The 2014-2016 West African Ebola outbreak was considered a major global threat, and was a wake-up call: It signaled serious ...
