SOUTH AFRICA
Mining multinational Anglo American is to supply free anti-retroviral drugs to its workers. The company estimates that a fifth of its 90,000-strong workforce in the region is HIV-positive.
NORTH AMERICA
In the US, seven people have died and 135 have been infected by West Nile virus, a mosquito-transmitted disease from Africa that is now spreading to Canada as well.
EUROPE
Chemicals that act like hormones are harming wildlife, but the evidence that they damage people’s health is inconclusive, says a World Health Organization report. The authors call for more studies.
CANADA
A man has died of vCJD,…
