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Access to clean and safe water is crucial for human health and well-being. This study aimed to assess the physicochemical characteristics, heavy metal concentration, and microbial contamination in key water sources within the Benue South Senatorial District, Nigeria. A total of 9 water samples were collected from three river sources including Ohimini, Okpokwu, and Ofumenyi rivers across different locations within the...
Assessment of Anthropogenic Activities in Three Landing Sites Along the Coast of Oyan Lake, Nigeria
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There has been an increased report of anthropogenic activities around Oyan Lake, Nigeria because its supplies water round the year. Therefore, this study evaluated the anthropological activities of three different landing sites (Abule Titun, Ibaro and Apojola) along the coast of Oyan Lake Nigeria. Anthropogenic activity was evaluated using structured questionnaire administered to households around the three landing sites....
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Recently, a plant protection strategy has been recommended, minimizing the use of chemical pesticides. Therefore, the study was conducted to determine the efficacy of commonly used insecticide chemicals in cotton mealybug, Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley, and their toxicity against natural enemies of mealybug on Deltapine-90 cotton variety at Werer Agricultural Research Center during the 2016 cropping season. The treatment...
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Ethnopharmacological relevance: Baillonella toxisperma Pierre, fruit pulp is largely used in traditional medicine. No toxicity study was done on this fruit pulp. Aim of the study: The purpose of this study was to assess the acute and subacute toxicity of the hydroethanolic extract of the fruit pulp of B. toxisperma. Materials and Methods: An acute toxicity study was conducted at 2000 mg/kg of body weight as a 14-day...
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The use of leafy vegetables in making soups, local salads and diverse forms of foods for human consumption is common in Africa. These vegetables include Brassica oleracea (cabbage), Phaseolus vulgaris (green beans) and Solanum lycopersicum (tomatoes). The area of study is famous for agriculture and mining activities; its near temperate climate favours the cultivation of these vegetables. Farmers cultivate them on degraded...
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The sprawling of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the developing world provides several challenges to ensuring health and safety practices among workers in the urban poor. The study used the cross-sectional design to determine types of self-reported health effects associated with physical hazards among welders in the selected small-scale welding workplace in Embakasi constituency, Nairobi County. Data were...
Bone Marrow Response Under Stress of Nickel Nitrate In Albino Rat (Rattus Norvegicus)
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Nickel has bio-importance as a trace element but the biotoxic effect of many of them in mammalian biochemistry is of great concern. There is a need for a proper understanding of the condition such as hyperplasia, hypoplasia, and oxidation states which makes them harmful and that is how biotoxicity occurs. Therefore, we studied the effect of oral administration of nickel nitrate (Ni(NO3)2) at different doses calculated for...
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Amid our busy lives, air pollution is one of the greatest casualties of our time and has been increasing worldwide since 1990. Today, the history of air pollution in sawmills, which accounts for 93.32% of the total number of wood processing industries in Nigeria, can seem daunting, overwhelming and have placed the nation at a perilous crossroad. For emerging countries such as Nigeria with a population projected to hit 400...
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This study evaluated the water quality of untreated and treated water samples from Isiamaede stream and assessed the possible health implications following the consumption of the water samples using standard methods. The treated water sample was obtained with the help of locally purchased treatment agent. The pH values of untreated and treated water samples from Isiamaede stream were not within Nigerian Standard for...
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Heavy metals constitute a major threat to humans due to the fact that they unlike some other pollutants are not biodegradable. This study aims at comparing heavy metals presence in two waste dumpsite in relating to its environs; Gbagede community in Ifelodun Local Government of Kwara State and Ilokun community in Ifelodun Local Government area of Ekiti State hosts the dumpsites in this research study. The dumpsite is...
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The histological effect on C. gariepinus exposed to aqueous extract of V. amygdalina was examined. One hundred and eighty (180) healthy juveniles of C. gariepinus (17.05±0.25g) were exposed to aqueous extracts of Vernonia amygdalina at concentrations at varying concentration of 0, 40, 45, 50, 55 and 60ml/l in replicates for 96h. Histological changes in the gills, liver and muscle were examined and used as an index of...
Air Quality Assessment of Temidire Irewolede Community of Ilorin Metropolis and its Health Impact
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Air pollution represents the largest portion of all environmental risks which accounts for over 3 million deaths globally. It is a significant factor for a number of health conditions including respiratory infections, heart disease and stroke and in 2016 alone, long term exposure to air pollution contributed to deaths of 6.1million people, with stroke, heart attacks, lung disease and lung cancer. Air pollution monitoring...
Radon Concentration using Zero Inflated Negative Binomial (ZINB) Modeling
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This attempt is geared towards being able to quantify and compare the counts of radon concentrations emitted for some days and nights in 2016 in an averagely populated office. With the use of Radon Scout, the captured count is often zero inflated and thus requires the use of an appropriate zero inflated modeling technique, which in the present case is the proposed ZINB. The results from ZINB modeling shows that radon is...
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Occupational noise has been identified to cause health hazard on workers. Noise pollution annoys, causes hearing loss, and disturbs mental capacity and performance. Noise pollution is becoming increasingly more severe in cities and occupational setting, escalating at such a high rate that it is now considered as a major threat to the quality of human lives. This study aims to evaluate the level of occupational noise...
ASSESSING HEALTHCARE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF THE TAMALE CENTRAL HOSPITAL, GHANA
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In developing countries including Ghana, healthcare waste management (HCWM) creates a number of environmental and public health challenges. Irrespective of the possible health implications associated with hospital waste, much attention has not been given to its management. The present paper sought to assess the healthcare waste management practices in the Tamale Central Hospital (in the Northern Region of Ghana) by...
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Food safety issues are of growing concern to consumers globally because of the risks associated with consumption of foods contaminated with heavy metals. In Harar town, Kebele 05 vegetable farms are known to produce vegetables irrigated with wastewater. To what extent these vegetables are contaminated with heavy metals was not known. Thus, a laboratory based cross sectional study was conducted from October 2016 to January...
EVALUATION OF NON-PEROXIDE ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF SOME NIGERIA HONEY ON WOUND PATHOGENS
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Owing to high incidence of multiple resistances of pathogenic bacteria to conventional antibiotics, there is need to explore natural effective alternatives to conventional antibiotics for the treatment of some bacterial infections. Honey has been used as a natural remedy for the treatment of infected wounds since antiquity. The antibacterial activity of honey depends on both its phytochemical and peroxide constituents . ...
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Organophosphorus (OP) poisoning is a major health problem all over the world, particularly in the developing countries. The present study aims to explore the clinical and epidemiological features found in patients presenting with OP poisoning and to find out reliability of related laboratory investigations. A 2-year cross-sectional study was conducted on patients presenting with clinical features of OP poisoning in...
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Plants hormones are widely used in agriculture to alter plant characteristics as growth regulators. Gibberellic acid (GA3) plays important role in promoting plant growth, and cell differentiation. This work was performed to investigate the relationship between lipooxidative damage marker (HEL) and bone damage induced by GA3 in adult albino rats. This study was carried out on 20 adult albino rats for 4 weeks treated 6...
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