Archive for March, 2009
Hand Washing: So Important, It Gets a Day Of Its Own
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Wednesday, October fifteenth, is the first Global Handwashing Day. Activities are planned in more than twenty countries to get millions of people in the developing world to wash their hands with soap. For example, private donors will give one hundred fifty thousand bars of soap to schools [...]
Colds, Flu and Folk Advice
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Autumn and winter are cold and flu season — when people are most likely to catch the viruses that cause influenza and the common cold. Is the old advice true that dressing warmly will help prevent a cold? Or if you do get sick, should you follow [...]
Almost Half of All Deaths Are in People Under 60
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study from the World Health Organization says fifty-nine million people died from all causes in two thousand four. Ten million of them were children. The report says almost half of all the people who died were under the age of sixty. About twenty percent of [...]
