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...part, Novartis now spends more than $1 billion a year on ensuring better access to medicines. The firm has built two research labs dedicated to preventing and curing neglected diseases such as dengue fever and tuberculosis and has pledged to eradicate leprosy. (Read "A Vaccine That Could Help Wipe Out Malaria...
...20th century blossoming of archaeological research in Afghanistan uncovered treasures of unimaginable value: carved ivories, Greek statues and Buddhist icons that mesmerized the world. Those findings also ignited gold fever in the country, inspiring hundreds of freelance "archaeologists" to dig for treasures of their own, with a black-market value that far exceeded a farmer's annual earnings. Then, starting in 1979, war uprooted whatever fragile government protections had been put in place and thousands of priceless artifacts, some even looted from the national museum in Kabul, were spirited out of the country. But it was the fall...
...antibiotics and immunizations to protect against micro-organisms and parasites, children's immune systems may be getting weaker and even bored, with little or nothing to fight. This theory was first posited 20 years ago by a British epidemiologist who noticed that children with more siblings had less hay fever than kids in smaller (and presumably less snot- and germ-laden) families. It could explain the climbing incidence of all allergies - not just those to foods - as well as asthma. Sanitation can't demystify the entire trend, but the so-called hygiene hypothesis remains the leading answer to baffled parents...
...Happy. "In the light of that it feels very bad that people are hacking web sites which actually puts us in a worse light than we need to be in. ... Please stop, for our sake. We don't need that kind of support. The Internet is having a fever and this might be a way to get cooled down. But I hope it's over now and that we can go back to winning our case...
...chimpanzees are also reservoirs of disease and can pass along infections like yellow fever, monkey pox and the Marburg virus to their human keepers...