Prevalence and occupational exposure to zoonotic diseases in high-risk populations in the Free State Province, South Africa

IntroductionZoonotic diseases are responsible for 2.5 billion human cases globally and approximately 2.7 million deaths annually.Surveillance of animal handlers and livestock for zoonotic pathogens contributes to understanding the true disease burden and risk factors within a community.This study investigated the prevalence of selected zoonoses in

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Validating cuffless continuous blood pressure monitoring devices

Cuff-based home blood pressure (BP) devices, which have been the standard for BP monitoring for decades, are limited by physical discomfort, convenience, and their ability to capture BP variability and patterns between intermittent readings.In recent years, cuffless BP devices, which do not require cuff inflation around a limb, have entered the mar

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Higher Education and the Politics of the Radical Imagination

In this paper, I address the vital civic principle that democracies cannot exist without informed citizens and that education itself must be about more than training and is essential to creating critical and engaged citizens.Such an understanding is imperative at a time when democracy is under siege all over the globe.As an example of both the rise

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