Wednesday, January 30, 2013

China Air Pollution

The biggest health issue in China is the extreme air pollution. it has gotten so bad that it is beyond U.S. air quality measurements, the air quality has been hovering around 490 for the past two weeks. The children and elderly are kept indoors and the healthy people are recommended to not do any exercise.
The city is moving to make rules to scrap old cars, ban new factories, and to fine roadside vendors who are barbecuing on a smoggy day.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

South African Water Pollution

South Africa is having water pollution problems and is causing people to be sick. The sewers are leaking into the drinking water. In some of the towns they don't even having water cleaning systems so they are using dirty water from underground.
The underground water is going through hard rock that lets a lot of diseases into the water.Some prime aquifers have low yielding rock foundation.2.6bn people have no access to sanitation, which can cause serious disease outbreaks. This is a major incident from such a small town.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

The Flu

The Flu causes people to have sever joint and muscle pain and high fever. When you have the flu you feel miserable and need to stay home, it is contagious so don't hang around your friends and share germs. this year has been one of the worst and it is spreading faster than it has in a long time. The flu season peaks in November and continues throughout April.
You will have less chance of catching the flu if you get a flu shot. The flu comes fast and strong and appears most in fall and winter seasons.my opinion about the flu is, don't get it, it's horrible.