350,000 children in Garissa vaccinated as Kenya ramps up push to check spread of polio from Ethiopia, Somalia
Garissa county polio champion Abdi Guhad said they had to network and convince the community members some who were reluctant to have their children vaccinated.
As rest of Kenya grapples with medical supplies shortage Kakamega County in the west restocks its 181 health facilities
While presiding over the launch, Governor Fernandez Barasa warned health officials involved in drugs and other medical supplies racketeering that they would apprehended and arraigned in court. Besides, he warned, they risked being sacked.
Study: Americans are dying younger than Europeans, richest living longer than poorest
The wealthiest 25 per cent of people in Northern and Western Europe had mortality rates that were about 35 per cent lower than participants in the wealthiest quartile in the US for those from Southern Europe, during the study period, this value ranged from 24 per cent to 33 per cent.
No love lost: In Hollywood movies vultures are evil and in Africa they’re harbingers of death not treasured for gift of ‘killing’ diseases
Vultures also have extremely strong stomach acid, don’t get food poisoning and are able to consume and neutralise anthrax, botulism and other bacteria and toxins in carcasses that would kill other animals, removing deadly threats from the environment. Just this week, more than 50 hippos died from suspected anthrax poisoning in a reserve in Congo.
Revelations that CDC Vaccine safety office deleted or hid Covid vaccine injury records raises serious ethical questions about US drugs industry
California attorney Rick Jaffe said Johnson’s allegations are “troubling, but not surprising, given longstanding concerns about transparency at the CDC.”
Region in northeast Kenya hit by Kala-azar sees infections decline after joint county, national governments intervention
Since the onset of the outbreak in September last year, over 600 people have been infected and the disease had by Friday, April 11, 2025, claimed about 30 lives. The most affected areas include Eldas and Wajir West sub-counties, where more than 106 patents are currently receiving treatment.
Fears rise 122 million Americans drink water laden with unsafe cancer-causing chemicals
An analysis of testing results from community water systems in 49 states found that nearly 6,000 such systems serving 122 million people recorded an unsafe level of chemicals known as trihalomethanes at least once during testing from 2019 to 2023.
Labour court: Kenya’s biosafety authority boss remains interdicted, disciplinary proceedings against him will go on
The disciplinary process against Mugiira began on June 6, 2024, when the board requested an explanation for several instances of financial impropriety at the Authority. He is alleged to have tempered with the investigation into claims of misappropriation of the funds by the board.
The Nairobi Hospital addresses corruption, quality assurance as East Africa’s premier hospital parries integrity concerns
Acting Chief Executive Officer Felix Osano echoed the chair’s sentiments saying: “We are taking decisive steps to address challenges and ensure that The Nairobi Hospital remains a beacon of trust and quality healthcare in Kenya.”
US intelligence agency’s classified analysis offers detailed scientific view that Covid came from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology
The DIA has not publicly recognised the analysis as its official position on the matter. But, unlike other federal assessments that provide few details to back up their findings that Covid-19 likely emerged from a lab, the DIA assessment offers the most detailed US agency scientific analysis made public to date supporting why such a conclusion was drawn.
