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MERS-CoV is deadly but mostly preventable - WHO
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) seen under an electron microscope.
A UN health official says most of the confirmed cases of Respiratory Syndrome Corona-Virus (MERS-CoV) could have been prevented as infection rates for the virus are slowing.
Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Keiji Fukuda said on Thursday that there have been 824 confirmed cases...
WHO holds crisis meeting on Ebola outbreak
The World Health Organization (WHO) is hosting an emergency meeting in Ghana as the death toll from the deadly Ebola virus keeps rising in West Africa.
Health officials from eleven African countries are meeting in Ghana’s capital city of Accra on Wednesday to find a way to contain the deadliest outbreak of the virus in history.
Representatives from Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the...
5 powerful antibiotics that don’t require a prescription
Hospital antibiotics have become one of the most over prescribed “medicines” today
As a result people have ruined their digestive systems, and ironically, have lowered their natural immunity to all types of infections in the future. Get rid if infections without the digestive destruction, with these five powerful natural antibiotics.
Garlic
Garlic has been used medicinally by cultures around the...
Texas woman becomes weight loss sensation with healthy food choices
Forget fat diets… and don’t leap into unhealthy shortcuts like bariatric surgery.
The new weight loss paradigm is based on making informed, daily choices about healthy eating. Using this simple system of avoiding liquid sugars and eating whole foods like quinoa and fresh vegetables, a Texas woman named Teena Henson achieved extraordinary results without dieting. Over two years, she accomplished...
Periodic fasting combats diabetes risk factors
Researchers have identified that periodic fasting could reduce cholesterol levels in people with the amount of glucose higher than normal.
Scientists at the Intermountain Heart Institute in Murray, United States, found a biological process in the body that is able to convert bad cholesterol in fat cells to energy.
The identified process help combating diabetes risk factors in prediabetic people, reported...
Washing raw chicken increases food poisoning risk
New research has warned that washing raw chicken, through spreading infection, could increase the risk of food poisoning.
Washing meat before cooking was found to spread deadly bacteria called campylobacter, experts claimed.
The bacteria infect the things around such as work surfaces, clothing and cooking equipment, through the splashing of water droplets.
Campylobacter bacteria, as the most common...
Infectious Tuberculosis Moving Across U.S. Border, Ice Whistleblower Confirms
Agent confirms reports that deadly, infectious illness is penetrating the US-Mexico border.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement whistleblower, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to Infowars, asserted the recent surge of illegal immigrants is also bringing with it tuberculosis and other communicable diseases, confirming reports deadly, infectious illness is penetrating the US-Mexico border.
“We...
Ebola out of control: Doctors Without Borders
Members of Doctors without Borders carry the body of a person killed at a center for victims of the Ebola virus in Guinea.
Doctors Without Borders has said the Ebola outbreak in West African nations is “totally out of control,” calling for more help in dealing with the disease.
Bart Janssens, the director of operations for the group, said on Friday that international bodies and governments...
10 herbs and foods that kill superbugs
Longtime readers of Natural News know that, because of massive over-prescribing by the modern healthcare industry, today’s crop of antibiotics are becoming less and less effective. Another culprit: The increased use of antibiotics in factory-farm animals.
“It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them,”...
European Union bans US apples for being too toxic
It’s sad when one of the biggest ‘super powers’ can’t even export a quintessentially American food to another country because it is too toxic to eat. But apples treated with diphenylamine (DPA), a substance which keeps them from turning brown for months at a time when they are kept in storage, is now a sore spot for importers of American apples.
DPA isn’t harmful all by itself, but it breaks...
Chinese herbal medicine can treat cancer safely and effectively
Australia’s University of Western Sydney and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine recently conducted a large retrospective review of thousands of studies and “hundreds of thousands of cancer patients” which proved that Chinese herbal medicine is indeed a viable treatment for almost all cancers.
The researchers intensely scrutinized lung, liver, stomach, breast, esophageal, colorectal and nasopharyngeal...
Australian GMO Bananas to Go through First Human Trial
Australian researchers announced on Monday that a super-enriched genetically engineered banana to improve the lives of millions of people in Africa will soon have its first human trial and will test its effect on vitamin A levels.
“The project plans to have the special banana varieties – enriched with alpha and beta carotene which the body converts to vitamin A – growing in Uganda...
Children playing with dirt may reduce allergy and asthma risk
Babies exposed to dirt and a wide variety of household bacteria in the first year of life are less likely threatened by allergies and asthma, a new research unraveled.
Contact with bacteria and even roach allergens in the first year of life may help protect infants against future allergies and wheezing.
The study researchers followed 467 newborns for three years, monitoring them for allergies annually...
Adult movies cause brain damage to men - new study finds
Is just four hours of porn a week enough to reduce the size of a man’s brain? According to a recent study, less than an hour a day might be enough to see gray matter decay.
For the investigation, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin recruited 64 healthy males between the ages of 21-45. By studying their porn-watching habits, they hoped to determine if there was...
Scientists learn to selectively erase and restore memories in brain
Wiping out memories at a press of a button, just like with a ‘neuralizer’ from the Men in Black movie, may soon become a reality. Researchers have managed to erase and then restore lost memory in genetically modified rats with a flash of light.
The study by researchers from University of California in San Diego, published in Nature journal , is the first cause-and-effect evidence that strengthening...