Wednesday is #WorldStrokeDay.
You can lower your risk of stroke by:
🚭🍺 Avoiding tobacco & alcohol
🩺 Managing blood pressure, cholesterol & diabetes
🍎 Eating healthy foods
🚴 Staying active
More from @WHO: https://t.co/oiazt3VdHY
Have you heard about a worm that can cause #epilepsy?
Meet Taenia solium — the pig tapeworm that travels from gut to brain, causing seizures and preventable epilepsy in millions.
In this episode of Science in 5, Dr Bernadette Abela explains how this parasite spreads when pigs eat human feces and humans consume contaminated food or water — and what we can do to stop it. Learn how cooking meat properly, improving hygiene, and vaccinating pigs can break the cycle.
⚠️ 1.3 million people acquired HIV in 2024 alone, including thousands of adolescent girls and young women. WHO recommends twice-yearly injectable lenacapavir as a new effective pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) option to protect people at risk of HIV. Know more: https://t.co/U7OF6cngxd