According to the
Mayo Clinic, some 290 million people are infected with malaria annually and at least 400,000 people die of the disease each year predominantly young children, the elderly and the infirm making it the world’s most pervasive parasitic disease. Symptoms involve ongoing cyclical “attacks chills and shivering followed by fevers followed by chills followed by fevers.
“Safe, effective, affordable vaccines could play a critical role in defeating malaria,” Dr Robert Newman, Director of WHO’s
Global Malaria Program said in 2013. ”Despite all the recent progress countries have made, and despite important innovations in diagnostics, drugs and vector control, the global burden of malaria remains unacceptably high.”
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RANCHO SANTA FE (KUSI) – Helen Woodward Animal Center is seeking pets for their Pet Encounter Therapy Program which they say is, in essence, “cuddle therapy.”
The program brings the unconditional love and tactile benefits of animals to people inside skilled nursing facilities, children’s shelters, hospitals, psychiatric units and many more.
The basis of the important therapy stems from studies showing that holding and caressing an animal provides benefits such as relaxation, lower blood pressure, improved long- and short-term memory, and sensory stimuli.
Due to the up close and personal nature of the therapy, farm animals are not immediate go-to’s.
The world according to Walter Palmer The educator, organizer, and alumnus discusses his six decades of activism, growing up in the Black Bottom, studying and teaching at Penn, his work at CHOP, the student strike of 1967, the Vietnam War, Frank Rizzo, Donald Trump, school choice, gun violence, the Chauvin trial, and why he thinks racism should be declared a national public health crisis. Image: Eric Sucar
Two weeks before he was assassinated in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. called organizer and activist Walter Palmer to discuss some concerns Black youth in Philadelphia had about King’s commitment to the anti-war movement. The youth asked Palmer to speak with King and let him know of their grievances.