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New Vaccine To Be Used For First Time In Polio Outbreak Response

...50 000 annually in 1988 to 1267 cases in 2004. Six countries remain polio-endemic, with a further six where pol...polio in Africa might lead to re-infection of more countries in the polio-free Horn of Africa and the Middle East. Yemen is the most recent of fifteen polio-free...

Poaching, logging, and outbreaks of Ebola threaten central African gorillas and chimpanzees

...udes. The action plan designated 12 sites in five countries - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, and Equatorial Guinea - that require immediate help. Seven "exceptional sites" have ape populations exceeding 2,000 in a large area (8,232 to 41,900 square kilometres), while five "important sites" ...

UN pours polio vaccine into Yemen amid outbreak

...,000 in 1988 to 1,267 cases in 2004, it said. Six countries are polio-endemic ?Niger, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Egypt, it said, with another six where polio has been re-established ?Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Sudan. ...

Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management

...d sustainable harvesting, like those used today in countries such as Brazil and Thailand, greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced by 45 percent in a gradual transition scenario, and by 66 percent in a rapid transition case. "This study shows that choosing energy technologies with an eye toward improving healt...

Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies

...ent local planning, and that donors and developing countries should learn from these mistakes as the number of ...ournal article. "Though more people in developing countries are receiving therapy, growing from 400,000 in June 2004 to 700,000 in December 2004, it still amoun...

Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures

...st Guard Cutter Healy with 24 scientists from four countries (the US, Canada, Russia and China). Eleven of the... involvement of up to 200 scientists from about 30 countries is expected, together with several million dollars in direct and in-kind support. Countries confirme...

$5.1 billion would save 6 million children

...imately 90 percent of all child deaths occur in 42 countries around the world. In those countries, the average ...Protecting child health should be the priority for countries with the highest rates of child death and for international donors. The biggest challenges are incre...

Tsunami-damaged coral reefs should be left to recover naturally, say scientists

...gedy should be allowed to recover naturally before countries launch into expensive restoration plans, according to some of the world's leading scientists. The scientists, led by a researcher from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and who set out their views in an advisory brief for the World Bank, point ...

Aircraft Cabin Ventilation Influences The Transmission Of Diseases In-flight

...ns recommend disinsecting aircraft travelling from countries with malaria and other vector-borne disease only five countries currently do so (Australia, Caribbean, India, Kiribati, and Uruguay). The authors believe the aviat...

Alien woodwasp, threat to US pine trees, found in N.Y.

...ic nematode has been remarkably effective in other countries in the southern hemisphere where the woodwasp has been accidentally introduced, he says. Related World Wide Web sites: E. Richard Hoebeke: http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/Faculty_Staff/Hoebeke/ ...

Breakthrough System for Understanding Ocean Plant Life Announced

Sixty million people in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa are threatened daily by a deadly parasitic disease known as African sleeping sickness. The disease is caused by organisms called trypanosomes, which are spread by the tsetse fly. African sleeping sickness affects approximately 5...

Newly discovered protein an important tool for sleeping sickness research

Sixty million people in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa are threatened daily by a deadly parasitic disease known as African sleeping sickness. The disease is caused by organisms called trypanosomes, which are spread by the tsetse fly. African sleeping sickness affects approximately 5...

U.N. mulls the protection of Earth's forests

... as a fund to help international organizations and countries protect the world's forests. The forum is schedule... and Environmental Affairs. "Since the late 1980s, countries have periodically debated the pluses and minuses of having a legal convention. But there are even be...

Primates on the brink

...he report compiled by more than 50 experts from 16 countries cites deforestation, commercial bushmeat hunting, ... The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates, and the countries where they are found: Greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus) Madagascar White-collared lemur (Eulem...

Owl genomics presents a HEPATOCHIP for diagnosis of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

...sue in United States as well as in other developed countries The HEPATOCHIP presented at the mentioned forum, has been developed in collaboration with the Hepatology Services of the Clinic Hospital in Barcelona and Príncipe de Asturias Hospital in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid). This chip analyses the co-expressi...

Researchers find gene that may be at root of potato blight

...ion to a halt in Papua New Guinea , one of the few countries in the world that was previously free of the disease. Agricultural problems caused by oomycetes don't stop with P. infestans. Related Phytophthora species cause root rot in soybean plants as well as sudden oak death, which is devastating stands of o...

Cousin of Asian super termite invades Florida

...considered to be the most destructive pest in many countries of the tropics -- areas between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. To identify possible infestations of the pest, Su said residents should look for winged termites flying around lights at dusk and in the evening. The head and dorsal surface of the...

Measles Deaths Worldwide Drop By Nearly 40% Over Five Years

...ions Children's Fund (UNICEF) today announced that countries are on target to halve deaths from measles, a lead...ss of this magnitude is remarkable. I congratulate countries for their successful efforts in protecting children from measles," said Dr LEE Jong-wook, WHO Direct...

OneWorld Health drug receives 'Orphan' designation from U.S. and European regulatory agencies

...cy, we will be prepared to accelerate approvals in countries that have a critical need to treat VL." Paromomycin is an off-patent aminoglycoside antibiotic first used in the 1960s and is still marketed in the U.S. as an oral formulation to treat intestinal parasites. The largest-ever Phase III clinical trial ...

Double triumph in stem cell quest

... cloning is not possible for legal reasons in many countries and is very expensive in countries where it is legal, such as the US. By contrast, there is a virtually limitless supply of existing ES...

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