Post conducting a retrospective investigation of 44,672 patients who were confirmed to have the condition, the researchers divided the outbreak into five phases
The newly discovered Neanderthal remains dubbed as Shanidar Z who lived almost 70,000-years-ago was excavated at Shanidar Cave in the foothills of Iraqi Kurdistan
For the study, researchers looked at data from questionnaires filled up by parents of 2,022 children in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Cohort Study
The UV-attributable melanoma rates among non-Hispanic whites were found to be as low as 15.1 per 100,000 in Alaska to as high as 65.1 per 100,000 in Hawaii
Though the number of officially confirmed cases are coming down, the epidemic is far from over with over a thousand cases and close to a hundred fatalities reported each day.