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telegraph.co.uk » Telegraph Travel - Oct 1, 2008
More than a third of British 'gappers' are failing to take antimalarials when travelling to highrisk destinations.
Also tagged: health, travel, doctor, holiday, warning, year, gap, malaria, destinations, antimalarials
motoblog.it » motoblog - Sep 25, 2008
Non è la prima volta che vedo questa immagine, tipico souvenir da mail tra colleghi… Tuttavia è bene ricordarlo: chi non si mette il casco in moto ha la testa più piccola di una mosca! Dopo il salto vi proponiamo un …
Also tagged: video, sicurezza, curiosità, varie, foto del giorno
sustainablog.org » Sustainablog - Sep 22, 2008
I’m a mosquito hunter. If you’ve seen the Monty Python sketch, then you know that I’m talking about. If you haven’t, then at the end of this is post your chance. For me, there’s nothing more maddening than the …
Also tagged: animals, offbeat, humor, funny, lifestyle, bizarre, insects, odd, oddball
ecoworldly.com » EcoWorldly - Sep 18, 2008
A team of researchers in Costa Rica’s Alberto Manuel Brenes Reserve have been searching for plants that might help cure the mosquito-transmitted disease known as malaria. While not a common disease in Costa Rica, the …
Also tagged: malaria, costa rica, echinacea, parasites, rainforests, asteraceae, meliaceae
dailysciencedose.com » Daily Science Dose - Sep 17, 2008
You may have heard of a strain of encephalitis: the West Nile Virus, with West Nile encephalitis being the most severe form. West Nile is actually a form of Japanese Encephalitis, a mosquito-borne disease that causes …
Also tagged: health, global warming, climate change, general, asia, change, treatment, disease, biology, cdc, climate, malaria, midwest, tropics, frogs, great lakes, centers for disease control, la crosse, encephalitis, insect repellant, japanese encephalitis, st louis encephalitis, tropical diseases, mosquito borne, western equine, west nile encephalitis, eastern equine, mosquito spread
courant.com » Hartford Courant blogs - Sep 17, 2008
My post on Windsor's roadside dinosaurs generated quite a few emails, including one from Bob McAllister, the town's self-proclaimed resident curmudgeon. Bob confirmed that local excavator Lon Pelton is, in fact, the …
Also tagged: windsor, areawide, lon pelton, road side sculpture
courant.com » Greater Hartford iTowns - Sep 17, 2008
My post on Windsor's roadside dinosaurs generated quite a few emails, including one from Bob McAllister, the town's self-proclaimed resident curmudgeon. Bob confirmed that local excavator Lon Pelton is, in fact, the …
Also tagged: windsor, areawide, lon pelton, road side sculpture
dailysciencedose.com » Daily Science Dose - Sep 8, 2008
This is post is part of a series that is looking at the impending danger of tropical diseases moving into temperate areas. The cause of this migration is the actual movement or rather expansion of the tropics …
Also tagged: health, cancer, global warming, climate change, general, disease, biology, malaria, epidemic, pandemic, environmental science, tropics, capricorn, centers for disease control, dengue fever, aedes, dengue hemorrhagic fever, tropical disease, aedes aegypti
dailysciencedose.com » Daily Science Dose - Sep 7, 2008
Yesterday, I started a series of posts on tropical diseases that are spreading into areas that until recently had not been present or at least not typically present, like North America and Europe. In short, tropical …
Also tagged: europe, africa, health, global warming, climate change, general, treatment, disease, british, north america, colonization, climate, south america, malaria, parasite, immunity, centers for disease control, tonic, drug resistance, tropical diseases, falciparum, temperate, cinchona, quinine, anopheles, vivax, plasmodium
dailysciencedose.com » Daily Science Dose - Sep 5, 2008
You may remember years ago when SARS broke out and with it fears that this disease could spread with human hosts as they traveled across the globe? Well, it is true that diseases can spread through the human hosts in …
Also tagged: europe, health, cancer, global warming, sars, climate change, general, disease, biology, malaria, environmental science, world health organization, tropics, ipcc, nobel, capricorn, dengue fever, north american, intergovernmental panel and climate change, tropical diseases, nature geoscience