More than 32,000 residents in eight rural communities in the Oti Region will gain access to safe drinking water after World Vision Ghana commissioned solar-powered mechanised water systems. The ...

Sintex, during its 50th anniversary, earned a Guinness World Record by mobilizing over 31,000 people in 24 hours to pledge ...

At the same time, it’s widely established that people over 45 years old are particularly susceptible to Legionnaires’ disease ...

A good number of families in Afaha Atai, Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, have been brought to their knees with the incidents of water borne diseases ravaging the community.

Floods are one of the major climate events that disrupt vital built systems such as water drainage and sanitation facilities. These conditions make it extremely difficult to obtain clean water and ...

On a sunny Tuesday evening in Igingo estate, Kilgoris, three children splash playfully in stagnant water. Their innocent game belies the grim reality of a cholera outbreak that has claimed five lives ...

SEVILLE – It was fitting that the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT) invited the noted Spanish stem cell biologist Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, PhD, to deliver the keynote address at ...

Targeted indoor residual spraying focuses insecticide applications on common resting surfaces of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes (an arboviral disease vector) in houses, such as exposed lower sections of ...

Every week neurologist Victor Sung sees people with Huntington’s disease, a rare and devastating neurodegenerative disorder, at his clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. But last ...

MISSOURI, USA — Something is festering underground beneath numerous soybean fields in Missouri and Illinois. No one knows how a fungal disease called Red Crown Rot arrived in the states, and no one ...

An outbreak of the viral epizootic hemorrhagic disease is killing white-tailed deer in numerous Eastern states, sparking a warning to hunters about the potential dangers of eating infected venison.