Written by As parents of children who died from food poisoning reel in pain, President Cyril Ramaphosa has offered words of comfort while imploring the public and his government to ensure no more young lives are lost to food-borne illnesses. Grieving families of children who died from food poisoning in recent weeks detailed feeling helpless as they […]
A banned pesticide has been linked to the deaths of several children in South Africa, according to conclusive tests conducted by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD). President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday addressed the nation on the government’s plans to tackle the scourge of food-borne deaths across the country. According to the NICD, Terbufos […]
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Taiwan’s government watchdog has criticised the island’s coastguard for “serious lapses” in a deadly incident involving a mainland Chinese boat. The February 14 incident resulted in the deaths of two fishermen whose boat capsized while being pursued by the Taiwanese coastguard near Quemoy, a Taipei-controlled outpost also known as Kinmen, a few kilometres from the […]
Tapeshwari Devi recounts the night of October 25 with sadness and anger. Her son, Mohit Pandey, 32, had got into a minor dispute with their neighbour, Adesh Kumar, over a few thousand rupees. At 7 p.m., the police arrived and whisked Mohit away to the Chinhat police station in Lucknow. Mohit, a manufacturer and supplier […]
Hopes of finding survivors more than three days after torrents of mud-filled water submerged towns and wrecked infrastructure were slim in the European country’s deadliest such disaster in decades. Almost all deaths have been recorded in the eastern Valencia region where thousands of soldiers, police officers and civil guards were frantically clearing debris and mud […]
A total of over 2 million individuals are now affected by Severe Tropical Storm Kristine, according to the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) on Thursday. In its latest situation report, the OCD stated that these individuals represent 431,738 families from 2,124 barangays across the Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley, Calabarzon, Mimaropa, Bicol, Western Visayas, Central Visayas, […]
Getty Images The RSPB says 1,344 birds of prey, including golden eagles, were illegally killed in the UK between 2009 and 2023 More than 1,300 protected birds of prey – from hen harriers to golden eagles – have been killed across the UK over the past 15 years, according to the RSPB. It described the […]
Charted: Deaths Related to Bacterial Infection vs. Research Efforts More people die every year directly from antimicrobial resistance than from HIV/AIDS, malaria, or any one form of cancer other than lung cancer. Clearly, a drug-resistant bacterial infection is a major health threat. But are researchers giving infections the attention they need? In part two of […]
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