Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand
It is common when municipal workers go on strike in South Africa to resort to upturning garbage cans and strewing litter around city centres. Their message is clear: we may be at the … Read the rest
Tag: public health
Newborn forgotten in incubator
For more than two days, a newborn baby girl lay in an incubator which was either not switched on or was malfunctioning, while her mother wondered where she was.
The baby screamed with hunger as she had not been fed … Read the rest
A fracking health scare
US residents living near gas fracking sites frequently develop health problems as chemicals used in the gas extraction have been tracked in water and air surrounding the sites, a new report has found.
The Marcellus Shale natural gas field, which … Read the rest