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Biomedical liquid waste originating from healthcare facilities, laboratories, and research centers often contains infectious materials that, when discharged without proper treatment, can contribute to the spread of communicable diseases through public sewers. These diseases can affect individuals coming into contact with contaminated water sources ...
As the world continues to be affected by pandemic lockdowns and legislation, clarifying the root cause is critical to improving a global response to future biological threats and health crises. Scrutiny over preventative disinfection and decontamination precautions can mean the difference between an isolated scare or a global pandemic. ...
Despite the relatively fast implementation of testing and vaccination worldwide, the rise of emerging viral variants and breakthrough infections raises concerns that SARS-CoV-2 will continue to pose a global health threat. Similar concerns extend to other viral pathogens such as influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and the next novel human ...
Misinformation can have a profound impact on public health, experts say that education might be the key to combating it. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), immunization saves millions of lives each year. ...
Reliable medical refrigeration solutions can increase the public’s trust in immunisation campaigns and therefore bolster vaccine acceptance. In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its list of the top 10 global health threats. Among the threats topping that list were another global influenza pandemic, Ebola ...
According to the WHO, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest threats to health and food safety. It is increasingly evident that antibiotics, resistant micro-organisms, and their resistance genes are spreading invisibly through water. ...
As vaccine rollouts take place in many countries around the world, it feels like the globe will soon be able to take a collective sigh of relief that this pandemic could nearly be over. However, the reality may not be so simple. Leading scientists including the chair of the WHO’s strategic and technical advisory group for infectious hazards expect that SARS-CoV-2 will become endemic, ...
As the World moves towards controlling the COVID-19 pandemic with the distribution of vaccines, another concern (and the threat to Health) takes more and more force even in the background: how to process a new wave of contamination, with plastic waste as the main protagonists. At the beginning of April 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
As the World moves towards controlling the COVID-19 pandemic with the distribution of vaccines, another concern (and the threat to Health) takes more and more force even in the background: how to process a new wave of contamination, with plastic waste as the main protagonists.At the beginning of April 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
Because of COVID-19, lives have been lost, and communities and nations turned upside down. The disruptions to health, economy, livelihoods, business and industry are expected to draw the focus away from climate change. ...
But researchers say a new adsorbent membrane shows promise for purifying PPCP-contaminated water. Health Threats of PPCPs PPCP contamination has grown along with higher living standards and is now reaching detectable levels in surface water and groundwater worldwide. ...
It’s no secret that opioid addiction is at an all-time high and represents a major public health threat. The CDC estimates that opioid addiction resulted in a record 72,000 drug overdose deaths in 2017 alone. ...
Certain levels of some water contaminants such as lead, nitrate and chlorination by-products pose a serious threat to the wellbeing of unborn babies even at low levels that aren’t harmful to older children. ...
It has reframed the climate conversation to put the focus squarely on the health of humans. Of course, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard of links between a warming climate and public health. ...
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co2balance special report on the health effects of indoor smoke pollution from unregulated indoor cook stoves. ...
Ensuring basic health care for people in low-income countries is critical to the Plan B goal of eradicating poverty and stabilizing population. While heart disease and cancer (largely the diseases of aging), obesity, and smoking dominate health concerns in industrial countries, in developing countries infectious diseases are the overriding health ...