July 2, 2016 / by admin / Public health information
Antibiotics are the drugs that we use to kill the bacteria that has invaded our bodies and caused disease in us. They were discovered within the last 88 years. Their use has assisted humanity to suppress major hitherto fatal epidemic diseases such plague, leprosy, scarlet fever, typhus, cholera, relapsing fever, meningitis, anthrax, typhoid, and tuberculosis. […]
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How consumers can protect themselves from food-borne microbial diseases
October 30, 2025 / by admin / Public health information / 0 comments
Food can get contaminated at various stages in the farm-to-fork chain. Similarly, food can be decontaminated or protected from contamination at various stages. Consumers have a great role to play in decontaminating food before they consume it. The commonest contaminants of food are the bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi, collectively called microorganisms or microbes. Among […]
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Prevent Superbugs: Let Us Slow Down Antibiotic Resistance, Part 1
July 2, 2016 / by admin / Public health information
Antibiotics are the drugs that we use to kill the bacteria that has invaded our bodies and caused disease in us. They were discovered within the last 88 years. Their use has assisted humanity to suppress major hitherto fatal epidemic diseases such plague, leprosy, scarlet fever, typhus, cholera, relapsing fever, meningitis, anthrax, typhoid, and tuberculosis. […]
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Yellow Fever in Kenya
April 12, 2016 / by admin / Public health information
Recently, two Kenyans returning from Angola came down with Yellow Fever, with one succumbing and dying from the disease. These news sparked public apprehension on a potential threat of an outbreak of the disease, with the government assuring Kenyans that no such threat was imminent and that border points would intensify the screening of visitors […]
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