Health care

2012 was not in vain for medical workers: many doctors worked tirelessly on the development of new antiviral vaccines, the creation of more effective methods of treatment, the use of more modern technologies.

The UK Ministry of Health is trying at all costs to fight the addiction to tobacco smoking. That is why a new anti-smoking campaign was launched, which can compete for the title of the most unpleasant and even disgusting in the whole history.

The beginning of the year in the United States was noted by the flu and colds, but ended with outbreaks of fungal meningitis, Nile fever and hantaviruses that killed hundreds of people. Of the infection with fungal meningitis, 39 people died in nineteen states. As it turned out, the cause of this was the negligence of pharmacists. Over 600 Americans could survive, but the disease caused them physical and moral suffering.

Scientists from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, conducted research to find out the real extent of the problem and understand how often mistakes made by health professionals occur. Experts note that between 1990 and 2010, more than 80,000 such incidents occurred.