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Your collaborator recommends that parents accept only the haemophilus influenzae type B (HIB) and tetanus vaccine for newborns and then think about the rest. Not polio? What about the polio clusters in unvaccinated communities like the Amish in the U.S.? What about the 2004 outbreak that swept across Africa and Southeast Asia after a single province in northern Nigeria banned vaccines? I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe. If the vaccine companies are not listening to us, it's their...
...liked to imagine that he had established a territory and pride of his own a long way away, too far to return and visit George. We hoped that he would have lived another ten years and that his descendants live in Kenya today. He had miraculously returned to Africa, survived the most dangerous years, and was big and strong. We could not regret anything...
...year, Henderson lit out for Brazil, where he took the reins of GM's operations in that country as well as Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. He has cited the promotion as his "big break." It also opened the door for futher international assignments, including stints overseeing GM operations in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Europe. According to a 2008 New York Times article, he has visited at least 45 countries as part of his duties...
...Risk compensation” or the idea that people are more likely to engage in riskier sex and have multiple partners if they use condoms at least some of the time, is cited as one reason for the failure of condoms to slow the AID epidemic in Africa. With brand names like “Shield” and “Trust,” Green said that the condoms marketed and distributed in Africa provide a false sense of security. While Nick Danforth, a resident scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis...
...primatologists pointed out, the attack power of a frustrated wild animal should have come as no surprise. Primatologist Jane Goodall noted, “Chimpanzees evolved in the tropical forests of Africa, and that’s where they’re suited to live, roaming in groups of their own kind. A house in Connecticut was a completely alien environment for a chimp...