Apple and Android phones hacked by Italian spyware, Google says
An Italian company's hacking tools were used to spy on Apple and Android smartphones in Italy and Kazakhstan, Alphabet's Google said in a report on Thursday. #alphabet #android #smartphones (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
800-year-old graves pinpoint where the Black Death began
The Syriac engraving on the medieval tombstone was tantalizing: “This is the tomb of the believer Sanmaq. [He] died of pestilence.” Sanmaq, who was buried in 1338 near Lake Issyk Kul in what is now northern Kyrgyzstan, was one of many victims of the unnamed plague. By scrutinizing field notes and more photos from the Russian team that had excavated the graves in the 1880s, historian Philip Slavin found that at least 118 people from Sanmaq’s Central Asian trading community died in the epidemic.
Slavin was on the trail of the origin of the Black Death, which devastated Europe a decade after the Kyrgyzstan burials...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 15, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Is the association between suicide and unemployment common or different among the post-Soviet countries? - Seksenbayev N, Inoue K, Toleuov E, Akkuzinova K, Karimova Z, Moldagaliyev T, Ospanova N, Chaizhunusova N, Dyussupov A.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed in 1991 and separated into the 15 post-Soviet countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine,... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news
Social and structural determinants of health associated with police violence victimization: a latent class analysis of female sex workers who use drugs in Kazakhstan - Mukherjee TI, Pala AN, Terlikbayeva A, Davis A, Howard AA, McCrimmon T, Mergenova G, Primbetova S, Witte SS, El-Bassel N.
INTRODUCTION: Punitive legal environments remain a challenge to HIV prevention efforts in Central Asia, and female sex workers who use drugs are vulnerable to police violence. Little is known about the heterogeneity of police violence against female sex wo... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 8, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Epidemiology of traumatic injuries and associated infectious complications in the Republic of Kazakhstan - Pliska N.
Traumatism is one of the most important contemporary medical and social issues for most countries worldwide. Since the 20(th) century, the urgency of traumatism has been increasing. There was an increase in fatal traumatism, including non-fatal cases resul... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 6, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
