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Just to reassure any Rema listeners out there, he certainly was NOT speaking about Yellow Fever. Forget Rema though, ever heard of these 2 new rappers, Aedes and Ago? Yeah they've just been signed to a record label called YFV. Okay, I lied. Kind of.. YFV actually stands for Yellow Fever Virus, a mosquito-born viral illness. Aedes and Ago are actually the causative vectors of YFV. Aedes Spp. and Haem ago gus Spp. YFV actually resides in both human and non-human primates and i

First off, I absolutely do think you all should visit Dubai at some point in your lives if you have not been already, it truly is a beautiful city and that title was 90% for attention grabbing purposes only lol. Fancy a vacation get-away to Dubai?.. think again ! Today ladies and gentle readers, we will be discussing MERS - Middle Eastern Respiratory syndrome. An infection with all cases linked to the Arabian Peninsula, firstly reported in Saudi Arabia and caused by MERS coro

Fancy a KFC chicken bucket and cold glass of milk?... think again ! About 50 - 74 billion chickens are slaughtered for food annually! This outnumbers the human population by a ratio of roughly 9 to 1. To further put this into context, the amount of chickens slaughtered for food anually is over 500 times the population of Russia! A big reason for this is the excessive popularity of fast-food restaurants in the last few decades! As a part of the name, these popular food chains

Fancy a swim with the snails?... think again. Biomphalaria, Bulinus and Oncomelania are 17.9mm diameter snails that when comapred to an object are only as big as a US dime. Yet, are an essential part of causing the second most common parasitic disease worldwide; Schistosomiasis . Affecting over 240 million people and its 3 strains S. Heamatobium, S. Japonicum and S. Mansoni causing up to 200,000 deaths worldwide. Second only to malaria, Schistosomiasis is prevelent in sub-sah