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Do Chicago’s suburbs hold the key to understanding West Nile virus?
Jul 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When Tony Goldberg is not whacking through the brush of central Africa, one of the world's great cauldrons of emerging human and animal disease, he is scouring another disease hot spot: the ...
Despite their diversity, pygmies of Western Central Africa share recent common ancestors
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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Despite the great cultural, physical, and genetic diversity found amongst the numerous West Central African human populations that are collectively designated as "Pygmies," a report published online on February 5th in Current Bi ...
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Hope for a rabies eradication strategy in Africa
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Jan 21, 2009 |
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Most of the rabies virus circulating in dogs in western and central Africa comes from a common ancestor introduced to the continent around 200 years ago, probably by European colonialists. In the current issue of Journal of ...
Maize research reduces poverty in west and central Africa
Oct 28, 2009 |
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An analysis of three and half decades of maize research in African farming communities finds big benefits. A multi-country study, in Agricultural Economics, reports the significant role international maize research plays ...
Central Africa's tropical Congo Basin was arid, treeless in Late Jurassic
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Nov 10, 2009 |
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The Congo Basin -- with its massive, lush tropical rain forest -- was far different 150 million to 200 million years ago. At that time Africa and South America were part of the single continent Gondwana. The Congo Basin was ...
Dwarf crocodiles split into three species
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Dec 12, 2008 |
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You'd think that if scientists were to discover a new species, it would be in some remote, uncharted tropical forest, not a laboratory in New York. But a team from the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics ...
South Africa in grip of strangulation spate
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Murder of women by strangulation is a serious problem in South Africa. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health compared four South African cities for the period 2001 to 2005, and report information about ...
Scientists study impacts of industrial logging in Central Africa
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Jun 08, 2007 |
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Though the dense humid forests of Central Africa have been regarded as among the most pristine on Earth, the expansion of industrial logging and the accompanying proliferation of road density are threatening ...
Freshwater herring had salty origin
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Apr 23, 2008 |
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East Africa’s Lake Tanganyika has a highly diverse fauna which closely resembles marine animals. A researcher at the University of Zurich has traced the origins of the freshwater herring of the Lake to a marine invasion which ...
Nurses in Africa know when to start antiretroviral treatment
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Nurses and clinical officers (non-physician clinicians, NPCs) are capable of determining when a person should receive antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV/AIDS. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal ...
Endangered rhinos return to wild
Dec 11, 2009 |
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A Czech zoo is to transfer four endangered Northern White rhinos to a Kenyan reserve in a last-ditch attempt to ensure the survival of the species.
Geneticists publish largest-ever study on African genetics revealing origins, migration
Apr 30, 2009 |
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African, American, and European researchers working in collaboration over a 10-year period have released the largest-ever study of African genetic data--more than four million genotypes--providing a library of new information ...
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