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Malaria Defined
From the medieval Italian "mal'" (bad) and "aria" (air), describing the miasma from the swamps around Rome in the summer months, believed to be the cause of fevers.
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DON"™T SLEEP, THERE ARE SNAKES: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Published November 21, 2008, 6:21 pm, Book Reporter
Daniel L. Everett is a linguist who first visited the PirahĂŁ tribe as a family man and missionary.
Photo project remembers vets
Published November 21, 2008, 4:59 pm, Sonoma Index-Tribune
Top, from left, Art Clarke, Harold Cook and Marion Cooper. Bottom, from left, Max Musiel, George Nilan and Sam Simon. Tom Sanders/Special to the Index-Tribune
A former crewman honors JFK
Published November 21, 2008, 2:29 pm, La Prensa San Diego
John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963. The young, skinny Navy officer strolled along the dock and met his new crewmen for the first time, as they stood on the sun-drenched deck of a nondescript, battleship-gray gunboat bearing large white numbers on its hull: PT 109.
A firm grip on life by the handlebars
Published November 21, 2008, 12:55 pm, The Japan Times
"Enjoy life and laugh," says cyclist Mio Yamasaki when asked her motto for living. "No, wait," she interrupts, as she ponders the question further. "Make other people laugh. This is the happiest way to live your life." The words are followed by a warm smile and gentle chuckle, cementing my initial impression — this 26-year-old cyclist has seized life by the handlebars. Her thrills come not just ...
ENTERTAINMENT Miss Malaika Ghana 2008 Tamara stands tall!
Published November 21, 2008, 8:46 am, The Ghanaian Chronicle
Last Saturday night at the National Theatre your Exciting Chronicle Entertainment Train Driver witnessed history repeat itself, when another medical student of the University of Ghana, Legon, stepped into the shoes of a past medical student as Miss Malaika Ghana 2008.
NEWS Articles
Published November 21, 2008, 1:16 am, Ball State Daily News
When computer science graduate student Mary Fleming found herself surrounded by smoke in a Scheidler apartment Thursday she wasn't sure what to do. It wasn't long before she had trouble breathing. She started to panic and didn't know her next move. However, the spectacle was completely planned.
Rewriting history
Published November 20, 2008, 4:34 am, BBC News
How Congolese rebels are changing life under their rule
UNICEF TAP PROJECT Partners With Watergeeks for 2009 Clean Water Campaign
Published November 20, 2008, 2:30 am, Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance
Freshwater Technologies Inc., the exclusive, world-wide distributor of Watergeeks branded water conservation products, is pleased to report that the UNICEF supported clean water campaign known as the "TAP PROJECT" today announced that water technology manufacturer, The Watergeeks Laboratories, will become a national supporter of the campaign in 2009 - the third year award-winning, life-saving ...
CORRESPONDENCE: Malaria Prevention in Short-Term Travelers
Published November 19, 2008, 2:34 pm, New England Journal of Medicine
To the Editor: In his Clinical Practice article on malaria prevention in short-term travelers, Freedman (Aug. 7 issue)1 offers clinical ...
Missionary loses his religion in Brazilian jungle
Published November 19, 2008, 2:06 am, Chicago Sun-Times
The mission assigned to Daniel Everett after he graduated from Chicago's Moody Bible Institute was to change the lives of members of a tiny tribe in the Amazonian rain forest. It was, however, Everett who was changed. Everett, along with his wife and three children, were met in the rain forest by the Piraha people of central Brazil.
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- Obama climate pledge "very positive": U.N. official: ENN -- Know Your Environment: A promise from U.S. President-elec t Barack Obama to work to reduce emissions significantly by 2020 will have a positive effect on negotiations to create an international climate agreement, the United Nations chief environmental official, Yvo de Boer, said Wednesday
- Metro - Sierra Leone: A mission for MSF
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- Bednets and malaria in Africa : The Lancet: reducing infection rates?for example, by an ITN programme?coul d possibly lead to an increase in the frequency of the disease.
- Insecticide-tr eated net coverage in Africa: mapping progress in 2000?07 : The Lancet: We estimate that only about a fifth of children at risk of stable malaria transmission were protected by an ITN in 2007. Conversely, nearly 90 million African children living under conditions of stable malaria transmission have been neglected by the calls for rapid scaling up of ITN coverage made by the Roll Back Malaria movement in 2000.32 This neglect comes at a time when these same agencies and international partners are calling for elimination33 and a malaria-free world.
- Technology to eradicate malaria
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