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• New Form Of Malaria Threatens Thai-Cambodia Border

  
  Real Cambodia, Khmer News — Authority: 439
  AP) PAILIN, Cambodia (AP) - Otreng village doesnt look like the epicenter of anything. Just off a muddy rutted-out road, it is nothing more than a handful of Khmer-style bamboo huts perched crookedly on stilts, tucked among a tangle of cornfields once littered with deadly land mines. Yet this spot on the ...
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• New form of malaria threatens Thai-Cambodia border

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 157
  PAILIN, Cambodia (AP) -- Otreng village doesnt look like the epicenter of anything....
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• Jellyfish Facts

  
  Beer Steak Bullshit — Authority: 434
  Let’s take a look at a few interesting jellyfish facts . Now, I know exactly what you’re thinking. You want to know why would I want to talk about jellyfish facts. To be honest, I’ve been really into this whole life below the surface of the sea lately and started working towards getting some scuba diving ...
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• On a wing and a prayer

  
  myAsylum — Authority: 118
  Technorati tags: Antares , Magick River , Malaria , Get Well Soon Updated @ December 27th 2024 hrs: Latest news on Antares, taken from a comment posted by Zorro on his own blog, relaying a message from one of Antares’ daughters, Moonlake Lee. His condition is improving, but he’s not out of the ...
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• The Inconvenient Truth About Malaria

  
  Tai-Chi Policy — Authority: 446
  Like just about everything else, Global Warming advocates are misrepresenting the facts about mosquitoes and malaria. Also, the environmental movement’s success in getting DDT banned is one of the great tragedies of our time. Posted in Global Warming Tagged: DDT, Environmentalism, Environmentalists, Malaria, ...
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• USAID - new director confirmed

  
  Malaria Matters — Authority: 125
  The US Senate has given the development community a holiday gift. The indo-Asian News Service reports, “The Senate unanimously on Thursday confirmed the nomination of Shah, 36, and some three dozen other officials nominated by President Barack Obama before taking its Christmas break.”Rajiv Shah has training in ...
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• How Science will Rock our Life in the Year 20Ten?

  
  I News India - Empowering Ideas! — Authority: 99
  Friends, year 20Ten is just a few days away from us and I was just thinking about how Science will rock our life in the coming year. We imagine a lot and science helps us to convert that imagination into reality. Let’s see how science is going to rock in the year 20Ten : The year of Clean and Green Energy ...
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• Researchers find bacterium to trip malarial mosquitoes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Sydney, Dec 25 (IANS) Wolbachia, a bacterium from fruit flies, makes mosquitoes more resistant to infection by viruses, including those triggering dengue fever and Chikungunya, says a new research.Previous studies had shown that Wolbachia can halve the lives of disease-carrying mosquitoes. Once infected with ...
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• ‘Went to tame malaria in Andamans, lost family’ (Five years after tsunami)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  By Prashant K. NandaNew Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) “Tsunami…perhaps it is the most devastating word of my life,” said epidemiologist Manoj Das, flipping through photographs of his wife and daughter. “I went to tame malaria in the Andamans but lost my family.” Sitting at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences ...
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• A new way to fight malaria

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 571
  Interfere with the sex life of mosquitoes help stop the spread of malaria , according to a British study released on Thursday (24). A study about the mosquito from the species Anopheles gambiae – essentially vector of malaria transmission in Africa – has shown that due to the fact that these mosquitoes ...
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• Microbial ‘mosquito net’ to aid in fight against mosquito-borne disease

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, Dec 25 (ANI): By finding a microbial ‘mosquito net’, scientists have made new progress in the fight against mosquito-borne disease like dengue fever and Chikungunya.Earlier this year, researchers showed that they could cut the lives of disease-carrying mosquitoes in half by infecting them with a ...
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• How to control dengue fever spread

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Melbourne, December 25 (ANI): Researchers from University of Queensland’s (UQ) School of Biological Sciences claim to found a way to control the spread of dengue fever.The disease afflicts more than 50 million people and kills more than 40,000 worldwide every year.However, a team led by Professor Scott O’Neill ...
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• How malaria parasite enters body

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, Dec 24 (ANI): Scientists from Heidelberg University Hospital have identified a mechanism through which malaria parasite move from the salivary gland of a mosquito through a person’s skin into the body.Malaria is caused by plasmodia, tiny parasites that enter the human body through the saliva of a ...
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• New tool in the fight against mosquito-borne disease: A microbial ‘mosquito net’

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 145
  Contact: Cathleen Genova cgenova@cell.com 617-397-2802 Cell Press Earlier this year, researchers showed that they could cut the lives of disease-carrying mosquitoes in half by infecting them with a bacterium they took from fruit flies. Now, a new report in the December 24th issue of Cell , a Cell Press ...
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• Copenhagen is a disaster for Africa | William Gumede

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  African countries, worst hit by the effects of climate change, were bullied into a deal that does little to help them Climate change is frequently a matter of life and death for many Africans. From whatever angle you look at it, the climate change "deal" that was bulldozed through by rich nations at the Copenhagen ...
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• Dwindling funds for malaria could reverse recent gains

  
  TropIKA — Authority: 127
  Patrick Adams writes… A number of countries have made great strides in terms of malaria control, resulting in reductions of over 50% in the number of malaria cases in more than a third of affected countries. According to the World Malaria Report 2009, the progress was made possible by major increases in donor ...
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• The UMCOR Hotline for December 22, 2009

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 693
  United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) - USA In Todays Hotline: Read how UMCOR is responding to needs around the world:ZIMBABWE: A DOOR TO ZIMBABWEUMCOR: UMCOR OPENS NEW OFFICESJFON: JFON ADDS ...
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• Why arent there more sickle-cell anemics in the Mediterranean?

  
  Denim and Tweed — Authority: 122
  The story of sickle-cell anemia and its malaria-protective effects is a textbook case how environmental context determines the fitness of a given genetic profile. However, the evolution of human blood disorders in response to selection from malaria parasites might be more complicated than that textbook story. ...
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• Meddling in mosquitoes’ sex lives could help stop the spread of malaria, says study

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 122
  Stopping male mosquitoes from sealing their sperm inside females with a ‘mating plug’ could prevent mosquitoes from reproducing, and offer a potential new way to combat malaria, say scientists publishing new results in PLoS Biology on 22 December.The new study focuses on the species of mosquito primarily ...
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• MIT: Chemical energy influences tiny vibrations of red blood cell membranes

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 617
  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Much like a tightly wound drum, red blood cells are in perpetual vibration. Those vibrations help the cells maintain their characteristic flattened oval or disc shape, which is critical to their ability to deform as they traverse blood vessels in the body to deliver oxygen to tissues.
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