To determine the current risk of internal radiation exposure after the Chernobyl accident, the (137)Cs body burden of the inhabitants of Bryansk Oblast, Russian Federation was evaluated, from 1998 to 2008. The study population is composed of 84 666 people who visited Bryansk No. 2 Hospital. A whole-body counter was used for measurement of (137)Cs body burden. (137)Cs concentration was significa...

Survey of urinary schistosomiasis and trichomoniasis was conducted among 830 inhabitants of Ikao village, in Owan local government area of Edo State, Nigeria Between October, 1999 and February, 2000. Of these, 178 (21.4%) excreted Schistosoma haematobium ova in their urine. School children were more infected than the farmers and petty traders. Males were more infected than the female counterpar...

year among a certain number of livinginhabitants of a community or state. Of it is usual to calculate this proportion per 1,000 inhabitants. The birth-figure and the death-figure are of opposite significance in estimating the movement of a population. The smaller the birth-figure and the larger the death-figure> the more favourable is it for development, as then the increase by the births occur...

In total, 44 countries were included in the present study. This group comprised the 20 most populated countries of the world, the five most populated countries of each continent and a few other countries that were included in a recent nutritional study [3]. The number of McDonald’s restaurants per million inhabitants was calculated for each of these countries (www.mcdonalds.com). Countries were...

In the context of the newly adopted World Health Organization (WHO) End TB strategy, an action framework towards tuberculosis (TB) elimination in low incidence countries has been launched [1, 2]. Its aim is to reach pre-elimination of TB (less than 10 cases per one million inhabitants) by 2035 and TB elimination (less than one case per one million inhabitants) by 2050. Germany belongs to the ad...

Despite the advances of microbiology, immunology and pharmacology, tuberculosis (TB) remains a serious public health problem, particularly in poor countries. Portugal, which has reduced the incidence of the disease in 2009, had an incidence of new cases of about 27.0 per 100,000 inhabitants, a figure which surpasses the average in Europe (15/100,000 inhabitants) and also values considered of lo...