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East Timor's ticking AIDS timebombDili (AFP) Dec 31, 2009 The tiny nation of East Timor could face a deadly AIDS epidemic, with promiscuity among youths, low condom use and general ignorance leading to a sharp increase in reported cases, doctors said. "Most likely it will be a disaster in the near future," said Dr. Daniel Murphy, founder of Bairo Pite Clinic, one of four voluntary AIDS testing centres in Dili. East Timor is considered a low pre ... read more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Dec 15, 2009Scientists 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 ... more  
Toronto (UPI) Dec 15, 2009 Canadian physicists say they have discovered new behaviors of light occurring within photonic crystals. University of Toronto quantum optics researchers Professor Sajeev John and doctoral student Xun Ma said their findings could lead to faster optical information processing and compact computers that don't overheat. "We discovered that by sculpting a unique artificial vacuum ... more  
Seoul (AFP) Dec 14, 2009South Korea is preparing to ship medical supplies worth more than 15 million dollars to help North Korea fight an outbreak of swine flu, officials said Monday. The unification ministry, which handles cross-border ties, said the shipment would include antiviral drugs for 500,000 patients -- Tamiflu for 400,000 and Relenza for 100,000 -- and sanitation supplies. The aid will cost an ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 10, 2009 An 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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