Vietnam war technology could aid elephant conservation
Seismic sensors developed to track enemy troop movements during the Vietnam war could help ecologists monitor and conserve elephant populations, according to new research published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology. Dr Jason Wood and colleagues from Stanford University recorded the vibrations from the footfalls of elephants and other large mammals, including gi...Exposure to dioxins influences male reproductive system, study of Vietnam veterans concludes
A dioxin toxin contained in the herbicide Agent Orange affects male reproductive health by limiting the growth of the prostate gland and lowering testosterone levels, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in a cohort study of more than 2,000 Air Force veterans who served during the Vietnam War. Environmental H...WHO Declares Vietnam First Country to Control SARS
The WHO declared Vietnam as the first country to contain its SARS outbreak. Vietnam had five deaths from SARS after the virus spread in February through Hanoi's international hospital. There was about sixty three people affected by the virus. However Hanoi French Hospital closed its doors, there by reducing the rate of infection and keeping SARS from spreading beyond its doors. No new cases of SA...Vietnamese Scientists Unravel Genetic Code Of Bird Flu Virus
Vietnamese scientists have successfully decoded the gene of the deadly H5N1 virus, an article in the local newspaper Youth has claimed.// If true, this news is really a shot in the arm in the global fight against bird flu and could herald in a better understanding of the variations and the mechanism of transmission of the bird flu virus. Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute and the Region...Vaccination to fowl in Vietnam reduced the spread of bird flu
In Vietnam some regions are under the possible threat of bird flu infection and some cities are free from bird flu infection. //Bird flu samples collected from the delta regions of Dong Thap and An Giang have been tested negative to the bird flu virus strain. These regions and other regions are free from infection which were the main source of infecting grounds in the last years epidemic was free...Financial Allowances Being Offered To Poor Vietnamese HIV Carriers
The Vietnamese Government which intends to stabilize the rates of HIV by the year 2020 has proposed to offer allowances worth atleast 4.1 US dollars to HIV infected individuals on a monthly basis//. It has also been planned to reduce the rate of HIV infection to below 0.3 percent by 2010. The current projected population of Vietnam approximates to nearly 82 million. Under a recent gov...Bird flu virus spreading in Vietnam
Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development has announced that five new Vietnamese provinces are infected by bird flu virus, Vietnam is under high threat of pandemic spread of bird flu virus as already more than 21 cities and provinces in Vietnam // are infected with bird flu virus. Though, Vietnamese scientists have revealed that they have decoded the H5N1 bird flu virus genetic cod...