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2015-08-17 South Africa Health


Eyewitness News
   
Humans to face malnutrition if pollinators disappear   
Eyewitness News
If all pollinators disappear, 71 million people in low-income countries may develop vitamin A deficiencies. A parrot's feather beetle which has been bred at the City of Cape Town's Insect Mass. FILE: If creatures that pollinate our food disappear, we ...
Humans may face malnutrition if birds and bees disappear   West Central Tribune
Sharp Rise in Malnutrition and Deaths if Pollinators disappear   NH Voice

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Times LIVE
   
Elephant skin may save rhino   
Times LIVE
iThemba, a rhino from KwaZulu-Natal, received a skin graft on Monday last week to treat a wound left by poachers as they hacked out her horn. The graft came from an elephant. The female rhino was attacked two weeks ago. Poachers got away with one of ...

Rhino new face: Poachers mutilate rhino for horn, vet uses elephant skin to fix   Examiner.com

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Reuters Africa
   
Bird flu spreads to third location in Ivory Coast   
Reuters Africa
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast said on Friday that H5N1 bird flu had spread to a third location in the country, in the latest in a series of outbreaks in West Africa. The case was discovered on a farm in the village of Modeste, about 15 km (nine miles ...
Ivory Coast: Avian influenza spreads   poultrymed
In Ivory Coast: Bird flu spreads to third location   Pulse Nigeria

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Christian Science Monitor
   
As Ebola crisis ebbs for Sierra Leone, food insecurity gnaws at recovery   
Christian Science Monitor
The deadly virus overwhelmed Sierra Leone's key agricultural district, leaving thousands of farms, and their farmers, abandoned. The impact of that lost harvest has shaken the economy — and its food supply.
Ebola sensitization: President Koroma in Kambia, Port Loko   The Patriotic Vanguard
Sierra Leone lifts last major Ebola quarantine as cases recede   Vocal Republic
Sierra Leone ends Ebola quarantine for 500 villagers   Times of India
AllAfrica.com   
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eNCA
   
Canadian optometrist creates high-powered bionic lens to correct sights   
GlobalPost
VANCOUVER, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- A Canadian optometrist and inventor has said he was on the brink of producing and marketing a bionic lens that could eliminate the need for laser eye surgery, contact lenses or eyeglasses within five years. Dr. Garth Webb ...

Optometrist Creates High-Powered Bionic Lens to Correct Sights   Tasnim News Agency (press release)

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The Indian Express
   
At risk of diabetes or not? Your partner might tell you   
TheHealthSite
As per a new study by an Indian doctor, gestational diabetes, a type of diabetes that occurs during pregnancy, can predict future diabetes in fathers too. Kaberi Dasgupta of the McGill University said that they observed that the incident of diabetes ...
Does your diabetes increase with partner's pregnancy?   The Wiire (blog)
Gestational diabetes: A diabetes predictor in fathers   HealthCanal.com
Men More Likely To Develop Diabetes If Spouse Has Gestational Diabetes   Medical Research News and Interviews on MedicalResearch.com (blog)

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Ghana's doctors extend strike in challenge to government   
Reuters
ACCRA Doctors in Ghana decided on Friday to strike for two more weeks, their union said, in a protest that is emptying hospitals and posing a stiff challenge to the government of President John Mahama. Doctors are refusing to see out-patients or admit ...

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Daily Signal
   
UN Health Agency Kicks-Off Campaign Honouring World's Health Workers   
AllAfrica.com
The World Health Organization (WHO) is preparing to launch a campaign aimed at honouring the sacrifices and efforts of thousands of international health workers deployed to the frontlines of the world's most pressing crises, the United Nations agency ...
What World Health Organization Did Wrong On Ebola Response   Daily Signal
WHO Highlights Health Worker Plight In #ThanksHealthHero Campaign   Talk Radio News Service
Local doctor returns from stint with World Health Organization   Bloomington Pantagraph

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Independent Online
   
A photo says a thousand words about you   
Independent Online
Washington - Check out the two gorgeous photos here. If you had to choose one place to go on vacation, where would you go: the beach or the mountains? If you said the beach, you're in the majority. More people pick the beach than the mountains.

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Reuters
   
GSK hopes big clinical trial can breath new life into lung drug   
Reuters
LONDON GlaxoSmithKline is banking on a major clinical trial to revive its flagging respiratory medicine business, with billions of dollars of sales riding on a positive result. Data from the so-called SUMMIT study, designed to show GSK's Breo can ...

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