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4 hours ago · These conditions disproportionately affect vulnerable populations that lack access to healthcare. Therefore, addressing the relationship between climate change and parasitic diseases is critical in mitigating their impact on global public health, particularly in areas where these diseases are prevalent.
4 hours ago · The migration of mosquitoes due to global warming poses a health hazard in numerous nations. Malaria, the most widespread mosquito-borne illness, has been a longstanding threat to nearly 50% of the global population, resulting in over 200 million documented cases in 2014 (WHO 2016). Norman Myers, a scholar from Oxford University, provided ...
5 hours ago · PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are hazardous compounds that pose a global threat to human health. For the first time, the U.S. government is requiring municipal water systems to ...
4 hours ago · Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment: 198 and the Ishii Unit, was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945 ...
4 hours ago · e. Eugenics ( / juːˈdʒɛnɪks / yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well', and -γενής (genḗs) 'come into being, growing') [1] is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population. [2] [3] [4] Historically, eugenicists have attempted to alter human gene pools by excluding ...
4 hours ago · Today, Malta has both a public healthcare system, where healthcare is free at the point of delivery, and a private healthcare system. Malta has a strong general practitioner-delivered primary care base and the public hospitals provide secondary and tertiary care. The Maltese Ministry of Health advises foreign residents to take out private ...
4 hours ago · The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the ...
