Food poisoning
Every year, 600 million people — almost 1 in 10 people in the world — fall ill and 420,000 die after eating contaminated food.
South Africa is currently battling the world’s largest listeriosis outbreak on record. In 2017, an outbreak of salmonellosis led to the recall of a French brand of contaminated baby formula from more than 80 countries and territories around the world.
In 2018, WHO will pursue its policy of ‘no regrets’ in responding to health emergencies — guided by the knowledge that outbreaks are inevitable, but epidemics are preventable.
Top 5 Most Important Medical Discoveries. In vitro fertilisation(IVF) While birth control was a major breakthrough in limiting unwanted pregnancies, its opposite in many ways, is just as important. In-vitro fertilization is a way of creating pregnancies, for people who have no other way of getting pregnant. The history of IVF dates back to the 1950s, but it wasn’t until 1978 that the first “test-tube baby” was born. The second was born a year later in Scotland, although there were unconfirmed reports that there had been a baby born in India between the two. As with any science that is seen to interfere with natural conception, IVF has been controversial. It is still outlawed by the Catholic Church, with its teaching describing babies born through IVF as a “commodity”. There has also been criticism from other quarters about the multi-million dollar nature of the IVF industry and the implications of allowing couples to “design” their baby by selecting embryos based on gender etc
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