News tagged with personal hygiene

Curable eye disease still rife among Indigenous Australians

Australia remains the only developed country in the world not to have eliminated trachoma, the leading cause of infectious blindness, despite recent progress in tackling the disease.

Ophthalmology Feb 26, 2013 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Hand, foot, mouth disease kills 156 in Vietnam

(AP) -- Vietnam says an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease has killed 156 people, mostly children, and sickened more than 96,000 through late November.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Dec 16, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0