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Senegalese Experts In Brazil To Help Fight Zika Virus

Senegalese Experts In Brazil To Help Fight Zika Virus

Senegalese researchers who helped contain the Ebola epidemic in West Africa are training Brazilians on how to tackle the Zika virus. They have brought along a mobile lab which quickly detects the virus. Senegalese researcher Amadou Alpha Sall brought with him to Brazil a small team and a lab which fits into a bag. He […]

Breaking News: Zika Virus Terrorizes South America, World Health Organisation Very Nervous

Breaking News: Zika Virus Terrorizes South America, World Health Organisation Very Nervous

These haunting images show health workers fumigating homes, schools and graveyards as South American officials desperately try to limit the spread of the Zika virus, which was today declared a global health emergency. The World Health Organisation said the outbreak should be considered a ‘public health emergency of international concern’, putting the mosquito-borne disease in […]

Shocking images show how they used to perform surgery before the invention of anaesthetic

Shocking images show how they used to perform surgery before the invention of anaesthetic

Imagine having an operation without anaesthetic.Before 1846, when the first procedure using pain-numbing drugs was carried out, this was was the norm. Hamfisted and brutal, surgeons cut patients open, cracked bones and tied up arteries while they were completely conscious. Not for the squeamish, a new book contains detailed images from rare surgical textbooks discovered […]

Lassa Fever Outbreak Hits Nigeria: 35 Dead

Lassa Fever Outbreak Hits Nigeria: 35 Dead

The Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed that out of the 76 victims of Lassa fever outbreak, 35 had lost their lives. This disclosure came as panic spread across the country with 10 states said to be battling to curtail the spread of the disease. The affected states are: Bauchi, Nassarawa, Niger, Taraba, Kano, Rivers, […]

Here Is How We Can Help Boost African Science

Here Is How We Can Help Boost African Science

Views of Africa as beleaguered by a multitude of problems have started to crumble, partly due to the many high-performing economies and to increasingly democratic governance. Sadly, however, what has yet to crumble is the continent’s unacceptably low contribution to the global body of knowledge in science and technology (S&T). Like mist in the early […]

Scientists in South Africa Have Found Another New Particle

Scientists in South Africa Have Found Another New Particle

Scientists are exploring the possibility of a new particle, the Wits School of Physics said on Thursday. This was because of new results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation of Nuclear Research (Cern), Professor Bruce Mellado said. The LHC is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Mellado said the […]

Why #IStandWithJanet is trending in Kenya

Why #IStandWithJanet is trending in Kenya

#IStandWithJanet hashtag has been trending on Twitter in Kenya after a concert was held last night in support of a popular TV presenter, Janet Kanini Ikua, who was last month diagnosed with cancer. It was attended by several Kenyan musicians and other celebrities. Mrs Ikua, who hosts a weekly show on privately owned station NTV, […]

Ethiopian Women Are Having Fewer Children Than Their Mothers

Ethiopian Women Are Having Fewer Children Than Their Mothers

Ethiopia has seen a massive cut in its fertility rate, from an average of seven children per woman in the 1990s to 4.6 currently. But how has it managed this? Experts say the country has made this turnaround because of a combination of factors. “Women stay longer in school, the standard of living is increasing […]

Mr. Universe, Ivan Byekwaso Wins Natural Bodybuilding World Cup

Mr. Universe, Ivan Byekwaso Wins Natural Bodybuilding World Cup

International Natural Bodybuilding Association (INBA) Mr. Universe, Ivan Byekwaso’s star continued to shine after he won the INBA Natural Bodybuilding World Cup in San Diego, California on Saturday. After spending close to a month in San Diego training with renowned San Diego based natural bodybuilding coach, Gaspar Lorenzo at the World Gym in California, the […]

Workshop On Biosecurity and Aquatic Animal Health Opens Today

Workshop On Biosecurity and Aquatic Animal Health Opens Today

A three-day workshop on biosecurity and aquatic animal health opened this morning at the Fisheries Training and Extension Centre in Pointe aux Sables. The Minister of Ocean Economy, Marine Resources, Fisheries, Shipping and Outer Islands, Mr Premdut Koonjoo, was present. Organised by the Competent Authority Seafood, the workshop aims to empower staff of the institution […]

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