Two districts in Kandal hit by ASF
ASF continues to plague the Kingdom as Kandal has become the latest province to experience an outbreak of the disease.
Tag: disease
Matters of the heart
Did you know that the human heart beats approximately 100,000 times daily? Just like a machine, the heart pumps roughly five litres of blood around our body through a network of blood vessels called the circulatory system.
Ministry issues alert for diseases during rainy season
Seven diseases that the public should be wary of during the rainy season.
KIDNEY DISEASE KILLS MANY
Our kidneys may be small, but they perform many vital functions that help maintain our overall health, including balancing our body fluid, salts and minerals while discarding the wastes from our blood.
THINK WITH PingAnn
Ping Ann reads the message he received from a Cambodian woman who saw the breast cancer campaign video he made in 2018 to raise awareness on the disease in the Kingdom.
Human hoof-and-mouth disease
HFMD is an infectious disease with following symptoms: fever, painful mouth ulcers, as well as blisters and a rash on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet.
Ministry tightens animal import rules
The Agriculture Ministry issues tighter regulations on pig and cattle importers to prevent diseased animals.
Ministry urges calm in ASF scare
The Agriculture Ministry has urged for calm as there are no cases of the African Swine Fever in the Kingdom.
Debunking HIV infection/AIDS
The disease has changed in many ways since then. Once it was a deadly disease with high infectivity and no Antiretroviral Therapy (ART). Today, it is very much under control with the use of better ART.
4 SIMPLE THINGS TO DO THAT WILL LIKELY SAVE YOUR LIFE
The human body is a magical machine – each cell, nerve, muscle and organ co-exists harmoniously to perform their own little ‘chores’.
The man’s menopause
Men may not have menstruation, but like women, at some point of time, they also ‘pause’, perhaps somewhat differently. Thus, women’s menopause pronounced as men-no-pause doesn’t really imply that men don’t pause.
Strange disease kills 8 elephants in northern Tanzania
A strange disease has killed eight elephants in Ngorongoro, northern Tanzania.
Outbreak of Chikungunya disease in Sudan
More than 11,000 people in Sudan’s Kassala have been infected by Chikungunya.
Eat a rainbow of fruits and vegetables!
Growing up, our parents always encouraged us to eat our vegetables and fruits. For generations, we raised our children to believe that veggies and fruits are super foods that make us strong (even popular cartoon,
International Vulture Awareness Day
This year´s International Vulture Awareness Day is on Saturday September 1. The aim is for each participating organization to carry out individual activities that highlight vulture conservation.
Feeling hopeless, helpless and worthless
Our mind is the driver of our body. Just like our body, it can fall sick, too. When it is sick, we should also seek treatment.
Measles outbreak in Dublin, 13 cases identified
A measles outbreak has been reported in parts of the Irish capital Dublin.
Brazil slams Venezuela as measles spreads across border
Brazil has accused Venezuela of doing nothing to stop the spread of an outbreak of measles in Brazil and other neighboring countries that has been sparked by an exodus of Venezuelans fleeing economic collapse.
Health Ministry warns travellers of MERS disease
Health Ministry warns travelers to Middle Eastern countries to be aware of a disease.
Bird flu hits Vietnamese city
Bird flu virus H5N6 has killed and led to the forced culling of some 10,000 fowls in An Duong district in Vietnam.
Japan flood toll nears 200, thousands battle heat
Intense heat and water shortages raise fears of disease outbreaks in flood-hit Japan.
Hepatitis B rate among children plummets
The rate of hepatitis B among children in the Kingdom has dropped to below 1%.
Dancing and good health
Professor Rafi Eldor, a Harvard professor of economics was diagnosed to have early Parkinson’s disease, he thought, “If medicine can only mask but not heal this devastating Parkinson’s disease, I shall try something else unconventional that might heal it.”
Japan donates farm animal vaccines
Japan has donated 300,000 doses of foot-and-mouth vaccine for the battle against the disease that affects farm animals.
Cambodia gears up for Ebola prevention
The Health Ministry has issued advice to be careful about the Ebola virus disease.
Chinese hospital ready to treat Cambodians
The Shulan Hangzhou Hospital has performed over 330 liver transplants since 2015.
PM touts policy of peace
PM revisited the history of the civil war that Cambodia experienced for decades and his endeavour to build peace.
Rabies – The painful and deadly disease
Rabies is the most lethal disease known to man. It tortures and torments its victims horrendously for many days before finally killing them. Having rabies is like entering ‘hell on earth’ before crossing the bridge…
New Year to bring better livelihoods
As Khmer New Year approaches, prophecies issued by the government say that this year will see more rain than usual.
Obesity – The scourge of this millennium
Fat cells are the ‘storeroom’ of our body. An average human adult has 30 billion fat cells with a weight of 30 lbs or 13 kilograms and their function is to store excess energy.
