African fly-catchers beating disease
Source: BBC
Ouagadougou :: Burkina Faso | updated 2013-05-03 16:33:28 -0700 | health-news
Efforts are shifting from prevention to surveillance because, although the disease has gone in some countries, the flies have not and the risk of recrudescence remains. In Bodadougou, a picturesque village on the edge of the Comoue river, I met...
Vaccine could cut risk of malaria in children by 50%
Source: Mail and Guardian
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2012-01-30 00:23:03 -0800 | political-news
Millions of children's lives could be saved by a new vaccine that has been shown to halve the risk of malaria in the first large-scale trials across seven African countries. The long-awaited results of the largest malaria vaccine study, involving...
Adapting to warming could worsen climate change
Posted by: WardaZafar
Ouagadougou :: Burkina Faso | updated 2011-12-06 10:29:00 -0800 | health-news
A new study has concluded that the way humanity reacts to climate change may do more damage to many areas of the planet than climate change itself unless we plan properly. The research has been published in Conservation Letters by...
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