The latest Annual Epidemiological Report from the HPSC highlights where Ireland is at in relation to the forestalling and curbing of infectious and communicable diseases, writes Lloyd Mudiwa, and it reflects on a difficult influenza season in 2014/2015.
A Professor of Health Systems at DCU and member of an expert group that compiled a report for the Government in 2007 on the ‘Health Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs)’ has urged the authorities to take into account epidemiological evidence for an increased occurrence of childhood leukaemia near to high-voltage overhead lines.
By Lloyd Mudiwa.
By Lloyd Mudiwa.
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