LetLucia

                                                       Sorry for my silence. I had exams and then I went on Spring break and I had so much fun! Yaay! So, you remember during the Ebola season (or Flu seasons usually) how people wore facemasks around because they did not want to get infected? Well, the truth about those masks is that they protect other people from the contaminated air YOU have to offer! Just kidding. But yes, they are effective enough to keep things in but they are not as effective when you would like to keep contaminated air from other people out. The facemasks can protect you against large droplets or splashes released from coughing and sneezing, or blood; as is the case with doctors, and keep them from contaminating you but however, the smaller particles would find their way in through the not-so-tight openings around ...

Yaay! I caught your attention. Now that you are here, I really do have something to tell you about Benzene , which is a major component of petrol, which is in your car. I didn’t lie. It causes Leukemia (cancer of the blood) at low levels.                                                                 Just a recap, I am currently a student at Texas A&M University getting a master’s degree in Public Health with a concentration in environmental and occupational health. So, one day in class, the Professor casually told us that to reduce our exposure to benzene, when we go to fill up our fuel tanks at the gas station, we should go uphill to prevent inhalation of the gas (petrol) fumes. Then I laughed! I laughed because, in Nigeria, we have attendants standing at those pumps for hours, serving gas! But nothing was fu...