Medicine & TechnologyThe parasite Cryptosporidium had been identified as the main source of diarrhea outbreaks in the US. The World Health Organization declares that it also cause outbreaks in contaminated Food by crypto.
A recent study has unfolded that direct administration of anti-AIDS drugs to breastfeeding infants by HIV positive mothers significantly reduces the chance of getting the disease..
Every year, more than 1 in every 10 babies born is premature, meaning with over 15 million births, an estimated one million die of complications, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Tuberculosis, declared as a curable and treatable infection, is killing an "unacceptably high" number of individuals per day close at hand with HIV/AIDS according to the World Health Organization's report last Wednesday.
A year later and over 4,000 dead, Liberia can finally breathe a sigh of relief as The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the country Ebola free.
"The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia is over," according to a WHO statement given at the emergency command center in Monrovia, as reported by The New York Times.
But this doesn't mean Africa is in the clear. In fact, if the countries surrounding Liberia are included, the death toll from the past year's outbreak soars to more than 11,000, making the current outbreak five times deadlier that all previous outbreaks combined.