The Federal Government has explained the reason behind the recent ban on the production, importation, sale and consumption of Codeine in Nigeria, after a report by BBC highlighting the danger of the substance went viral. The Ministry of Health in a statement issued on Wednesday by the spokesman, Olajide Oshundun
Health experts have warned of a Death Cap mushroom (Amanita Phalloides) in Canberra, which is a deadly poisonous fungus that can cause death when ingested.
According to the ACT health, an organisation that provides diverse health care services, It can be extremely difficult for even experienced collectors to distinguish Death Cap mushrooms from an edible mushroom.
People should not pick or eat wild mushrooms, and should talk to their families, friends and neighbours about the dangers of Death Cap mushrooms. Cooking Death Cap mushrooms does not make them safe.
Chinese researchers have identified two new risk gene variants that are responsible for leprosy.
The findings were published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.
The research, led by Yao Yonggang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming institute of zoology, examine 1,433 patients with leprosy and 1,625 healthy individuals from southwest China’s Yunnan Province.
However, gaining the benefits depends on how it is prepared.
Researchers have recently discovered just how valuable garlic is on our health.
They say it can reduce risk of major health issues like heart disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes.
Haitians battling cholera blamed on United Nations peacekeepers are getting little support with only two percent of promised funds materializing, according to campaigners accusing the global community of again failing the Caribbean nation.
Haiti was free of cholera until 2010 when peacekeepers helping after a devastating earthquake that killed more than 250,000 people accidentally dumped infected sewage into a river.
Since then about 9,750 Haitians have died of the waterborne disease that has infected more than 800,000 people, with the epidemic continuing to affect dozens of people every week.
The 4-year-old Cote d’Ivoire boy couldn’t walk, speak or feed himself. He was so unlike most other kids that his grandparents hesitated to accept him. The slightly older Kenyan boy was so restless that his primary-school teachers beat him, until they discovered he was a star pupil.
The two children reveal different faces of autism and how society sometimes reacts to the condition.
Videos of the boys appear in “Autism: Breaking the Silence,” a special edition of VOA’s weekly Straight Talk Africa TV program. It was recorded Wednesday before a small studio audience of people who live with the condition or deal with it professionally.
