All posts tagged with Africa
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-(Natural News) A new French study recommended that human populations reduce their interaction with wild animals, especially primates like apes and monkeys. Reducing contact with animals decreases the risk of contracting a zoonotic disease that might develop into an epidemic. One of the perils to human health comes from disease-causing microbes that usually live in animals but are capable of infecting […]
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-(Natural News) Singapore has confirmed its first case of the rare monkeypox virus on May 9, 2019. The country’s Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a statement that the virus was brought in by a Nigerian man who may have been infected by bushmeat that he ate at a wedding before he left. The 39-year-old man arrived in Singapore […]
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-(Natural News) Ebola is overtaking the Democratic Republic of Congo, a nation that is also currently being ravaged by war and unrest. Some 100 militias control the area around Butembo, a city in the nation’s eastern region. Butembo is the epicenter of Congo’s Ebola outbreak, but it is also home to other dangers — especially […]
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-(Natural News) We’ve all seen this scenario before: The mainstream media drums up fear over an alleged disease pandemic for the purpose of scaring the public into accepting some new vaccine as the “cure.” Well, it’s back again, this time with the ebola virus, which the powers that be are once again trying to use […]
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-(Natural News) A new study declares air pollution to be the top cause of death in Africa, with air-pollution-related health conditions killing more people than either AIDS or malaria. The study revealed that as a whole, air pollution causes the premature death of more than 1.2 million people every year in Africa. In comparison, acquired […]
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-(Natural News) The World Health Organization (WHO) put its hypocrisy on full display recently, when Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sanctimoniously insisted that first world countries should think twice before following the example of Canada in legalizing the recreational use of cannabis, because addictive substances are “not good for human health.” This, despite the fact […]
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-(Natural News) The next time an Ebola epidemic breaks out in Africa, we may be warned in advance by bats. A Science Daily article reports how Pennsylvania-based researchers created a computer model that predicts the migratory movements of the airborne mammals that carry the virus. Bats are considered to be a primary carrier of the Ebola virus. […]
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-(Natural News) The fertile farmlands of South Dakota do not produce sweet potatoes. But the even more fertile minds at the state’s biggest university are producing a sweet potato-fortified bread that can fight vitamin A deficiency in Africa, a NewsWise article states. Daniel Mbogo has come all the way from the International Potato Center (CIP) […]
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-(Natural News) Swedish researchers have found that European migratory songbirds leave their warm but disease-laden homes in the tropics to raise their vulnerable young in the healthier environs of Europe. This way, according to an article on ScienceDaily, their species could make do with less robust but also less costly immune systems. The University of Lund researchers came across […]
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-(Natural News) Many skeptics have been speculating over the past several years about Earth undergoing some major changes in the very near future – mainly with regards to the “flipping” of its magnetic field. And new research out of New York claims to have uncovered precisely where “ground zero” of this major event will take […]
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