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• Combating Cholera: The Preventable Epidemic

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  julien_harneis Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Cholera has ceased to be a major health threat throughout most of the world, yet in some countries in Africa, particularly Zimbabwe, the preventable and easily treatable disease continues to claim thousands of lives every year. Contaminated water supplies, poor ...
  2 days ago

• The Caribbean is One of the Most Vulnerable Regions to Climate Change

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  Barbados, West Indies, Caribbean With less than two months to go before COP15, the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen, TakePart continues to cover a breadth of relevant and compelling topics. One topic of particular interest to me is how climate change is impacting small island-states. Nations like the Maldives, for ...
  1 week ago

• Giardia Genome

  
  Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists — Authority: 134
  Diplomonads are a group of mitochondrion-lacking, binucleated flagellates found in anaerobic or micro-aerophilic environments. Most research on diplomonads has focused on Giardia , which is a major cause of water-borne enteric disease in humans and other animals. The first diplomonad to have its genome sequenced was ...
  1 week ago

• Excreted Tamiflu found in rivers

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 571
  Excreted Tamiflu found in rivers If birds hosting flu virus are exposed to the waterborne pollutant, they might develop drug-resistant strains, chemists worry By Janet Raloff Science News The premier flu-fighting drug is contaminating rivers downstream of sewage-treatment facilities, researchers in ...
  6 weeks ago

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