Life Expectancy Improves for Afghans
Investments in infrastructure, education, and health in the past decade have paid off in Afghanistan. More Afghans are living longer, especially more infants and their mothers than ever before, as a result of greater access to health facilities and better care, according to the Afghanistan Mortality Survey (AMS) 2010. The survey was implemented by the Afghan Public Health Institute and the Central Statistics Organization.>>
Turkey NPHI Responds to Earthquakes
The Refik Saydam National Public Health Agency sent a mobile laboratory and a team to the Van province in eastern Turkey after it was hit by two earthquakes this fall.>>
A study on health conditions six months after the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear incident revealed a high incidence of sleeping disorders, especially among the elderly.>>
Thailand NIH Responding to Record Floods
The National Institute of Health is concerned about skin infections, mosquito bites, food- and water-borne diseases, and bites from animals in areas recently flooded in Thailand and prepared for diseases like leptospirosis during the post-flood phases, reports NIH Director Pathom Sawanpanyalert.>>
Listeriosis Outbreak Linked to Cantelopes
The CDC reports that some 146 people became ill from any of four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes. Thirty deaths have been reported.>>
Fenugreek Seeds from Egypt 'Highly Likely' Cause of Germany's E.Coli/HUS Outbreak
The epidemic that took 52 lives and sickened more than 4,000 has ended, according to the Robert Koch Institute. >>
Cambodia Responding to Need for More Health Professionals
Since 2007, Cambodia's School of Public Health, a division of the National Institute of Health, has trained more than 100 health professionals. Read more about the institute.>>
Vietnam Plans to Counter Chronic Diseases
With morbidity and mortality from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) on the rise, Vietnam's National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) plans to use its existing system of infectious disease surveillance to create an NCD database. Read about NIHE.>>
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