Category: Global health
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May 17, 2016
Zika Eradication and the Citizen Scientist
There’s a new wave of data collection being employed in the United States that’s cheap, easy and civic-minded: crowdsourcing. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is launching an ambitious effort to eradicate Zika virus from its population starting with capturing data from across the country. Not by spending great sums of money to pay researchers in … Read more
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April 19, 2016
Public Health is Our Health – Get Involved
What do you think about when you hear the phrase ‘public health issue’? Flu, cardiovascular disease, pollution? Or cancer, antibiotic resistance, obesity? What we consider issues of public health come from our cultural mind-set, what hemisphere we live in, and how much our governments, and we as individuals, can afford to spend. But public health … Read more
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March 22, 2016
How to Save the World Even if You’re Not a Scientist
Do you know which animal is the biggest killer of humans? The lowly mosquito. This blood sucking predator is responsible for the deaths of approx. 725,000 people annually. Humans takes second place in killing other humans at 475,000. Snakes come in a distant third at 50,000. But let’s look on the bright side. between 1990 … Read more