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US President Barack Obama at his final State of the Union address in January to a joint session of Congress in Washington, DC, said that they were treading on the planned path to wipe out new HIV/AIDS transmissions from the country by 2020.

The federal government and various states have prepared a strategy to counter the epidemic through recent medical advances that have been decreasing the incidence of the deadly infection and making better the quality of life in some US demographic groups.

But the information needs to be better spread among various stakeholders, including volunteers active in the field, religious leaders and others who can help check the scourge of HIV/AIDS at the grassroots level in African-American communities.

Another victim of mold outbreak at UPMC Presbyterian has died at hospital, announced the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. With the latest demise, the death count linked to a fungal infection during the outbreak has reached four.

On Sunday, the University confirmed the death of 4th infected patient. The person, 70-year-old Che DuVall, was diagnosed with the infection about four weeks after undergoing a double lung transplant in last year’s August, as per the university’s statement.

If your body mass index (BMI) is normal, it doesn’t mean you are healthy. A new study has suggested that BMI calculations are crude, and not accurate health assessment, and people who have been labeled obese or overweight could be healthy.

The study by researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) stated that BMI is an inaccurate method of determining if a person is healthy or not. More than 54 million people in the America who have higher BMIs were previously mislabeled as overweight, or unhealthy, as per the study published in the International Journal of Obesity.

Amid fears of Zika virus, Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro is getting ready to host Olympic Games in August this year. But the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has jolted the host by suggesting US athletes not to visit the country affected with the mosquito-borne flavivirus.

Officials at the USOC, sports federation of the US based in Colorado Springs, told US sports federations in a conference that the nation’s sportspersons and other staff members who concerned for their health over the deadly Zika virus can avoid the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

A video made public earlier this week, featured El Jefe, the only known wild jaguar present in the United States.

Remote sensor cameras captured the footage taken on Wednesday. The footage showed El Jefe the wild jaguar going across the brush, prior to it went up a creek. The video has been submitted by nonprofits Conservation CATalyst and the Center for Biological Diversity. The two have been closely keeping an eye over the endangered species in the mountain ranges of Arizona. Since 2011, the jaguar has been called endangered.

Conservation CATalyst biologist Chris Bugbee said that conducting a research over such elusive cats at any place is very tough, but keeping a track of the only known individual in the US is particularly challenging.

A new study published Thursday has warned that the American Southwest should be prepared for more frequent droughts as a series of storm patterns linked to precipitation has been found becoming increasingly rare.

For the government-funded study, researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, analyzed data collected over 35 years, from 1979 to 2014. Broad storm patterns associated with wet weather were also indentified by the researchers.

As per the researchers, they found that the three of the patterns most connected to precipitation were becoming increasingly rare. It proves that the Southwest is moving into a drier climate, the study published in Geophysical Research Letters concluded. The study also said that today’s drier conditions are normal for the Southwest.