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New drug threatens India's endangered vulturesNew Delhi (AFP) Dec 15, 2009 Scientists who helped secure a ban on a cattle medicine blamed for plummeting vulture populations in India are scratching their heads after a replacement drug also proved lethal to the birds. Vultures, which have almost mythical status across much of the world, have become an endangered species in India due to their vulnerability to drugs found in the carrion they eat. Their near total ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 10, 2009An estimated 10,000 people including 1,100 children died of swine flu in the United States in the seven months after the new strain of flu was first detected in April, a top US health official said Thursday. "By November 14th, many times more children and younger adults unfortunately have been hospitalized or killed by H1N1 influenza than happens in a usual flu season," Thomas Frieden, head ... more  
Rochester NY (SPX) Dec 10, 2009Understanding the evolution of galaxies is one of the biggest questions confronting astronomers today. Looking at distant astronomical objects gives scientists important clues to the origins of the Milky Way Galaxy and other galaxies in the local universe. One question concerning Dan Dicken, a post-doctoral research scientist at Rochester Institute of Technology, pertains to the origin of ... more  
Conakry (AFP) Dec 9, 2009Talks between Guinea's junta and the opposition are stalled after the military leadership said it would pull out until its leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara recovers from an assassination bid. The junta announced late Tuesday that it was suspending talks in Ouagadougou with mediator Blaise Compaore, Burkina Faso's president, until Camara returns to work. He is in Morocco for medical ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 8, 2009The H1N1 flu outbreak appears to be less severe than earlier feared, according to a new study by US health experts who found fewer than expected hospitalizations or severe complications from the virus. The British and US-funded study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), which appears online in the journal PLoS Medicine, said the swine flu pandemic appears far "milder ... more 
Conakry (AFP) Dec 8, 2009Guinea junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara's condition has improved and he will return soon after being shot by an aide and operated on in Morocco for a head wound, his spokesman said Tuesday. "The president is speaking, he can sit up... he was walking in the hospital," spokesman Idrissa Cherif told AFP in Conakry. "He received his family and his friends," the spokesman added. ... more  
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 08, 2009There is more to the snowflake than its ability to delight schoolchildren and snarl traffic. The structure of the frosty flakes also fascinate ice chemists like Purdue University's Travis Knepp, a doctoral candidate in analytical chemistry who studies the basics of snowflake structure to gain more insight into the dynamics of ground-level, or "tropospheric," ozone depletion in the Arctic. ... more |
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