2015年2月12日 星期四

2015-02-13 South Africa Health


New York Times
   
Red Cross Faces Attacks at Ebola Victims' Funerals   
New York Times
Red Cross volunteers helping to safely bury people who die of Ebola in Guinea have been attacked in recent days by people attending the funerals, complicating efforts to stop the spread of the disease. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red ...

Ebola crisis: Red Cross says Guinea aid workers face attacks   BBC News
Red Cross highlights attacks on Guinea Ebola workers   CIDRAP
Red Cross Ebola teams in Guinea attacked 10 times a month   Reuters
Washington Post   
Daily Mail   
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Daily Mail
   
Law to make reporting of FGM mandatory   
BBC News
Professionals who fail to report cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) in children could face the sack under a new law for England and Wales. The government wants to make the reporting of FGM - also known as female circumcision - mandatory in all cases ...

Doctors, nurses and teachers told to report child FGM or face the sack   Daily Mail
GAMCOTRAP Celebrates Zero Tolerance for FGM in Brikama   AllAfrica.com
Female genital mutilation   The Economist
The Guardian   
Nottingham Post   
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BizNews
   
Cancer numbers game: not just random, bad luck if you get it   
BizNews
In January, media headlines heralded a study by US scientists at Johns Hopkins University as proof that cancer is mostly down to bad luck – random mutations that can take place during cell division. It's not mostly due to genetics, family history, bad lifestyle ...

Cancer is more than just 'bad luck' - expert   New Zealand Herald
Future cancer treatments may target DNA 'organisers'   The Australian (blog)
Aggressive Cancer Predisposition in Children Associated With Fatal Mutations   Colon Cancer News Today

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ABC News
   
Rhett Krawitt Wants You To Vaccinate Your Children, So Go On, Do It For The ...   
Bustle
If this appeal doesn't turn your anti-vaccination beliefs on their collective head, there is simply no hope left. In what can only be described as the cutest, if not most convincing, call for parents to vaccinate their children, 7-year-old cancer survivor Rhett Krawitt is ...

7-Year-Old Cancer Patient Makes Adorable Argument for Vaccines   ABC News
California boy who beat leukemia urges near-universal measles jabs   Reuters
Reed Union school board votes to support ending personal belief vaccine ...   Marin Independent Journal
CBS News   
SFGate   
News Tonight Africa   
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Sierra Leone Times
   
Ebola: World Bank will provide seeds to farmers in West Africa to ward off hunger   
Sierra Leone Times
12 February 2015 - The World Bank Group announced today that it has mobilized some $15 million in emergency financing to provide a record 10,500 tons of maize and rice seed to more than 200,000 farmers in the countries most-affected by the ...

Sierra Leone News : Ebola Marklate for Sierra Leone Slated for March 2015   Awareness Times
Sierra Leone to prosecute fraudulent Ebola 'ghost workers'   Times LIVE
UPDATE 1-UK should resume flights to Ebola-hit nations-parliamentary ...   Reuters
Telegraph.co.uk   
News24   
CBC.ca   
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34 hospitalised after eating cow   
Independent Online
Butterworth - Around 34 people are being treated for food poisoning after eating a dead cow in Dutywa near Butterworth, the Eastern Cape health department said on Thursday. “They are presenting with vomiting, stomach cramps and headaches; this is after ...


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'Port Loko, Western Area Will Start Recording Zero Infection Soon'   
AllAfrica.com
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Ebola Response Center (NERC) yesterday assured Sierra Leoneans that Port Loko district and the Western Area will soon start to record zero Ebola infection. Retired Major Alfred Palo Conteh told newsmen that ...

Sierra Leone News: Sooner we beat the virus, the sooner economic recovery will ...   Sierra Leone Times

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Outbreak News Today
   
Madagascar plague update: Slowing but still a threat   
Outbreak News Today
The plague outbreak continues on the island of Madagascar, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Wednesday; however, it appears to be slowing as the seasonal peak period comes to a close. This image depicts a magnified view of an oriental ...

Plague death toll up to 71 in Madagascar   Vaccine News Daily
Plague outbreak kills 71 in Madagascar: WHO   The Straits Times

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Bustle
   
Lesbians Are Less Likely To Get Screened For Cervical Cancer, And That's Just ...   
Bustle
Nobody really likes going to the gynecologist, but it's a painful necessity so that we don't run the risk of missing something like, say, cervical cancer in its early stages. For homosexual women, however, that risk is significantly higher, and it's for the lamest ...

Cervical cancer risk for lesbians   Times LIVE
Doctors' assumptions on sex heighten lesbians' cervical cancer risk: study   Channel News Asia
Many Women Willing to Extend Cervical Cancer Screening Intervals   Cancer Network

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Daily Mail
   
Girl discovers she is suffering from rare SLEEP-EATING disorder   
Daily Mail
When her weight began creeping up, and her trim size 10 frame ballooned to a fuller size 16, Kate Archibald was left confused. The university student began to pile on the pounds in her first year. While enjoying the student life, Miss Archibald said she couldn't ...

Murder, artistry and sex: the mysterious horrors of sleepwalking   Telegraph.co.uk
Kate Archibald ballooned in weight after eating thousands of calories a day - in ...   Metro
Packing on kgs while stacking Zs   Times LIVE
Scottish Daily Record   
Irish Mirror   
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