Extreme TB strain threatens HIV victims worldwide

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The outbreak of virulent and very drug-resistance tuberculosis in South Africans with HIV is horrifying health professionals and prompting the usually slow-and-steady field of tuberculosis medicine into emergency action. The new strain, called extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis (XRD TB), is virtually untreatable and neither the standard drugs not at least three of the six classes of more toxic and less-effective backup drugs are effective.

South Africa, Health aspects, Causes of, Risk factors, HIV (Viruses), HIV, HIV patients, Tuberculosis, South Africans

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Inadequate warning system left Asia at the mercy of tsunami

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The absence of monitoring equipment in the Indian Ocean left many places of Southeast Asia under tsunami devastation. The tsunami researchers on this issue say that in order to predict a tsunami with any useful time advantage, data on small changes in sea level and pressure have to be collected directly from the floor and surface of the ocean.

Asia, Indian Ocean, Usage, Economic aspects, Environmental aspects, Natural disasters, Tsunamis, Warning systems

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Conserving life and livelihood

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The question of the use of conservation to local and poor people is discussed by the Society for Conservation Biology, based in Arrington, who met in Africa.

Africa, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Human beings, Human-environment interactions, Conservation biology, Society for Conservation Biology, Conference news

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