Urban Schistosomiasis Persists in Salvador, Brazil, but Falls Sharply Over 13 Years
A 13-year longitudinal study in Salvador, Brazil, found that urban Schistosoma mansoni transmission is largely local and that community-wide prevalence ...
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Rwanda’s Nyabugogo River Carries a Hidden Cocktail of Drugs, Pesticides, and Plant Chemicals
A first-of-its-kind screening of Rwanda's Nyabugogo River has detected 66 organic contaminants, revealing that pharmaceutical pollution peaks in urban Kigali ...
Chronic Malnutrition Strikes More Than 40 Percent of Toddlers in Northern Ethiopia, Study Finds
A community-based study of 633 children in Endamekoni District, Tigray, found that 42.3 percent of toddlers aged 6 to 23 ...
Giardia in Brazil: One Health Review Reveals Fragmented Surveillance of a Widespread Parasite
A systematic review of 114 Brazilian studies finds Giardia duodenalis circulating widely among humans, animals, and the environment, yet only ...
Brazil’s Silent Battle Against Barriga d’Água: Why Schistosomiasis Refuses to Disappear
A new review reveals that Brazil's schistosomiasis burden is shifting toward aging chronic patients and entrenched transmission pockets, demanding integrated ...
Sanitation, Cooking Fuels and Malnutrition Emerge as Overlooked Drivers of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
A global ecological analysis of 201 countries identifies unsafe sanitation, polluting cooking fuels and unsafe water as the strongest overlooked ...
Poor Household Water and Sanitation Linked to Dangerous Pregnancy Complications in Africa
A large cohort study across The Gambia, Kenya and Mozambique finds that households without piped water or improved sanitation face ...
How a temple city turned garbage collection into a data problem it can prove it has solved
In the southern Indian city of Tirupati, a garbage truck is no longer just a garbage truck. It is a ...
Explainable AI Turns Static Sanitation Maps Into Living Systems for South Africa
A new framework called XAI-SFD digitalises shit flow diagrams using machine learning, GIS and SHAP-based transparency, offering Cape Town as ...
Pollution costs Uganda billions each year, but clean cooking pays for itself
A new health-economic model estimates that air and water pollution cost Uganda USD 4.34 billion annually, about 8.1 percent of ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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