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Disasters Can Affect Cervical Cancer Screening for Years

Cervical cancer screening rates in Japan were significantly affected in the years following the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, Tohoku University scientists report in the journal PLOS ONE.

HKU Study Shows That Control of Anthropogenic Atmospheric Emissions Can Improve Water Quality in China’s Coastal Seas

A new research led by MPhil student Miss Yu Yan Yau and supervised by Dr Benoit Thibodeau from the Department of Earth Sciences and the Swire Institute of Marine Science, the University of Hong Kong (HKU), highlighted the importance of reducing fossil fuel combustion not only to curb the trend of global warming, but also to improve the quality of China’s coastal waters.

Animals Keep Viruses In The Sea In Balance

A variety of sea animals can take up virus particles while filtering seawater for oxygen and food.

Lessons From The Spanish Flu: Cities That Enacted Early Isolation, Other Restrictions Had Significantly Lower Rates Of Disease And Mortality

Large events are cancelled, restaurants and non-essential businesses are closed, and in many states, residents have been asked to shelter in place, all to limit the spread and impact of the COVID-19 virus.

HKU Researchers Develop A Novel Wastewater Treatment Process To Effectively Remove Health Hazardous Chemical Contaminants

Globally, there is a growing concern regarding the presence of trace emerging contaminants such as retinoids and oestrogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in aquatic environments.