York Times Examines Journal Editorial On Neglected Tropical Diseases In Islamic Nationsthat the Islamic world is suffering from a "devastating burden" of neglected tropical diseases. "The article, a combination of analysis and editorial written by the journal's editor, Peter J. Hotez, shows that the member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference [OIC] account for 40 percent of the world's...
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weakens slightly, becomes a tropical storm with 65 mph winds as it dumps rain on Nicaragua < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateIda weakens slightly, becomes a tropical storm with 65 mph winds as it dumps rain on NicaraguaIda weakens slightly, becomes a tropical storm with 65 mph winds as it dumps rain on Nicaragua.| Ida weakens slightly, becomes a tropical storm with 65 mph winds as it dumps rain on N...
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was downgraded to a tropical depression Friday but is expected to become a tropical storm next week that could threaten Florida, according to the National Hurricane Center.The latest forecast track puts the storm 260 miles off the coast of Tampa Bay at 1 a.m. Wednesday (live tracking map below).The so-called cone of uncertainty also lists the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.Ida was on...
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Tropical storm Mirinae, which hit thePhilippines as a deadly typhoon at the weekend, killed atleast 40 people and left 11 missing in Vietnam, a nationaldisaster official said today.Mirinae was downgraded from a typhoon to a tropicaldepression before it hit communist Vietnam's central coastalareas on Monday."Most of the victims were because of serious floods thathit the provinces of Phu Yen, Binh Dinh...
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tropical storm roared toward Vietnam on Sunday after battering the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces, leaving 14 people dead in a region still waterlogged from three previous, back-to-back storms.Typhoon Mirinae slammed into Manila and nearby northern Philippine provinces over the weekend then weakened into a storm as it blew out on Sunday toward the South China Sea, leaving 14 people dead,...
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tropical storm roared toward Vietnam on Sunday after battering the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces, leaving 14 people dead in a region still soggy from three recent storms.Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ordered residents to begin evacuating high-risk areas of five coastal provinces and ordered Vietnamese fishermen in the South China Sea to seek shelter immediately.The two countries...
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tropical storm roared toward Vietnam on Sunday after battering the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces, leaving 14 people dead in a region still soggy from three recent storms.Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ordered residents to begin evacuating high-risk areas of five coastal provinces and ordered Vietnamese fishermen in the South China Sea to seek shelter immediately.The two countries...
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Iran hanged a member of a Sunni rebel group blamed for deadly attacks in the predominantly Shia Muslim state, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Tuesday.The death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae rose to 57 in Vietnam on Wednesday as authorities stepped up rescue and relief operations in the affected central regions.Prosecutors have filed murder and other charges against a 14-year-old central...
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movement is a key factor of dengue virus inflow in Rio de Janeiro, according to results from researchers based at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil. The results, based on data from a severe epidemic in 2007-2008, contribute to new understanding on the dynamics of denguein the second largest city in Brazil. Details are published November 10 in the open-access journalDengue fever is a major...
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believe that plans to be discussed at the forthcoming UN climate conference in Copenhagen to cut deforestation in developing countries could save some species from extinction, but inadvertently increase the risk to others.A team of eleven of the world's top tropical forest scientists, coordinated by the University of Leeds, UK, warn that while cutting clearance of carbon-rich tropical forests will...
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