March 2018 Dailynation; The world’s leading brands of bottled water are contaminated with tiny plastic particles that are likely seeping in during the packaging process, according to a major study across nine countries published on Wednesday. “Widespread contamination” with plastic was found in the study, led by microplastic researcher Sherri Mason …
Read More »CHAD: Hepatitis E Outbreak Kills 11 in Chad, Threatens Hundreds More – Charity
February 2017 Reuters; Hundreds of people in southeastern Chad are at risk of dying from a worsening hepatitis E outbreak which has killed 11 people since September, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday. Some 885 people in the Salamat region have been treated for symptoms of jaundice, …
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