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Is going to church dangerous for your health? The atmosphere in churches are sometimes laden with smoke from candles and incense. This smoke however can contain particulate material in concentrations...
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Since 2000, malaria deaths around the world have fallen by nearly half. The steepest drop has come in sub-Saharan Africa, where 90% of fatalities occur. Malaria still kills around 450,000 people each...
View ArticlePollution of the River Flint, Michigan
In the summer of 2014, LeeAnne Walters noticed that her son would get a rash every time he got into the swimming pool at their home in Flint, Michigan. By December that year, she had stopped letting...
View ArticleZika Fever
Zika, a mosquito-borne virus that arrived in Brazil in May 2015, has since spread into 17 other countries in the Americas. Until October, Zika was not thought much of a threat: only a fifth of infected...
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