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September began with torrential rains every where. As if HINI virus is not enough for the miseries, chickengunya and dengu have made a come back. These are cataclysmic times. We have to face them squarely. It seems India has weathered twelve months..
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As the swine flu epidemic was not yet ended another disease has hit the floor. 489 dengue cases have been recorded in New Delhi. Now it’s time for the people to get...
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Ukraine is in the midst of what some might call swine-flu hysteria. The country is in virtual lockdown mode, with the government closing schools, universities and movie...
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And here I was thinking that I live in a Democratic India where the Government is by the people, of the people, for the people and so on and so forth.And erroneously...
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“They’re happy, they’re full,” she said as the young leeches, squirming and swollen from their meal, settled into the containers that would be...
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Diarrhea kills 1.5 million young children a year in developing countries — more than AIDS, malaria and measles combined — but only 4 in 10 of those who need the...
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Discovered cases of infection with H1N1 virus in Jordan are increasing drastically in number; approximating a number of around 100 cases a day. Strategies of dealing...
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Her Execellency Mrs. Margaret Peter Obi (First Lady Anambra State) in collaboration with Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, was yesterday launches...
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Ten new cases of H1N1 were detected recently with students of aprivate school in the city if Fez after one of the patients came back from a country that was affected by...
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Well we have our Sharukh and Aamir both in their 40’s training to have a six pack body. In Italy they have a Romanian Giuliano Stroe a five year old who has this...
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Ever wonder if the organic-labeled milk you’re drinking is really organic? If you purchased it at Target, it might not be. The Cornucopia Institute, a food and...
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Overweight people always grieve against the abuses they face in their daily life. In a horrific case in UK, Marsha Coupe, was beaten up black and blue by another woman...
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Public volunteers and navy divers gathered on Saturday under the 2009 Clean Up the World dive campaign in Aqaba to clean the area. Volunteers removed around one tonne...
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The swine flu outbreak that has affected various schools in the country has led the ministry of health to issue a ban stopping parents and guardians visiting students...
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Around 8 months after banning smoking in public places in Jordan, Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad issues a decree banning smoking in public places and public...
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The Russia’s scientists and theologians are surprised with the spontaneous emergence of inscriptions on the body of a toddler of Dagestan.
According to European...
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When a strict anti-tobacco law came into effect three years ago, Maria Eugenia Avila scoffed. She had no intention of quitting the two packs a day she was delightfully...
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A fatal accident occurs around Enugu-Onisha Express Way. The incident was as a result of a Truck full of Petrol (Fuel) that broke down at the Express way.
The road...
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Just as always is the case following torrential rains during the onset of the rainy season, diseases like water borne diseases like cholera and typhoid wreck havoc.
In...
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The second round of testing on humans starting next week with 20 - 50 volunteers.
Dr. Hannah Kibuuka, the director clinical programmes at the Makerere University Water...
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India is emerging as the world centre of hunger and malnutrition, a report by Indian campaign group, the Navdanya Trust, says.
The trust says that there are more than...
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The persistence of hunger and abject poverty in India and other parts of the world is due in large measure to the subjugation, marginalization and dis-empowerment of...
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Two leaves and a bud… two leaves and a bud…
Hands go plucking at all tea gardens. Eight hours a day, bent over the tea plantation they work with their own rhythm...
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The Republic of Chad, situated between Niger to the west and Sudan to the east, will be celebrating nearly half a century of independence in a month. But this central...
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Malnutrition rates among Indian children are among the world’s highest and cause stunted growth in about half of children under five years, researchers quoting...
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A couple of months ago, Sheela Adivasi’s infant son fell sick and his eyes filled with pus. By the time the infection cleared up, Deepak’s pupils had turned...
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Undernutrition causes more than a third of child deaths worldwide, but simple programs like promoting breastfeeding and providing supplements could keep some of those...
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60 million malnourished and underweight children- Don’t just read and ignore, I am not talking about Africa, this melancholic statistics as per world Bank is of...
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Six decades after national independence, we still have children dying from hunger! What a development!
Unicef says:
On child nutrition found that out of 146 million...
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Alison Rivera, 6, who suffers from malnutrition, is carried by her mother’s friend, Dina Rosales at ‘La Mascota’ children’s hospital in Managua, Friday, April 25, 2008. The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) informed that due to the rising prices of...
