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Beautify facial skin with snail mucus
The hideous leeches used as beauty devices are now considered too trivial. Replacing the way to upgrade that face, it has just appeared a new and frightening new way: fa…
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European colonialism in Africa caused the HIV epidemic?
The emergence of Europeans in Africa a century ago is most likely a fire that triggers a pandemic that not only kills millions of indigenous people but makes the world s…
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New technique to help learn about African sleeping sickness
A special genetic tracing technique is bringing new hope to explain why drug treatment is often ineffective for African sleeping sickness, a frightening tropical disease.
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Malaria is at risk of outbreaks in Africa due to counterfeit drugs
Experts have recently said that counterfeit and poor-quality antimalarial drugs are negatively impacting efforts to control the disease in Africa and may threaten the li…
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South Africa: The climate warms up again with the outbreak of malaria
According to a study by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), released on November 26, climate warming could increase the risk of a recurrence of malaria in South…
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Terrible consequences from parasitic worms
Last year, Africa had about 2000 cases of body weakness caused by parasitic worms.
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There is already an HIV vaccine in normal people
Two recent studies show that taking Truvada daily to prevent HIV virus in non-homosexual men and women in Africa, brings new hope in creating a shield to prevent AIDS in…
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Pygmy: Where an 8-year-old girl became a woman
Pygmy dwarfs living in central Africa only have a lifespan of 30-40 years, so perhaps the girls here married and gave birth from the age of 8.
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Eating less vegetables is more prone to diabetes and obesity
Recent research by scientists has shown that eating less vegetables and fruits can increase diseases like obesity and diabetes.
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Thousands of people in Africa die from cholera
In recent times, cholera has spread to countries in Central and West Africa, causing thousands of deaths.
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African people no longer exempt from malaria
The international team of scientists has found that Africans no longer have the ability to immunity Plasmodium vivax malaria infection as before.
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New method to cure African sleepiness
The British Journal of Nature published on April 1 said that Canadian and British scientists have found a new way to treat African sleeping sickness (often referred to a…
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Test of new malaria vaccine in Africa
Testing of the most advanced vaccine in the world today, preventing malaria, symbolized RTS, S, is taking place in 7 African countries.
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African tea promises to treat type 2 diabetes
Researchers are trying to develop a new treatment for type 2 diabetes with the use of a special African tea.
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Death comes from Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on September 1 that it is studying a new epidemic, spreading rapidly and causing high casualties that are occurring in Kasa…