b5media bloggers discuss issues of global importance

WORLD HEALTH DAY 2007 is on April 7, and this week is an occasion to raise awareness of key global health issues.

Undoubtedly, the issues that I focus on are of global importance. The threat of bird flu is far from over, and if this crisis balloons into a pandemic, 62 million people could die from it. The need for vigilance, dissemination and rapid response is all the more important in a interconnected world. In the coming months, I will also be expanding the scope of this blog to include other viral diseases that impact both international and personal health securities.

Other b5media science and health bloggers participated in World Health Day by posting about other issues of importance. Jul at Veggie Chic rounded up an array of posts that included diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, breastfeeding, global light pollution, chronic illness and violence, autism, alcoholism, heart disease, genetics, and even baldiness (because hair loss affects 96% of Caucasian men).

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