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Instead, the Crimson’s starting point guard was lying down at University Health Services with an IV hooked up to her arm, dehydrated by a stomach virus that threatened to sideline her for the most important game of the team’s young season...
Murray, the Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy who also directs the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, said in a press statement, “Quite simply, much more of the international attention needs to focus on how we can protect the poorer countries should this virus reoccur...
...types of mosquitoes and its limitless mosquito-breeding sites. Children are struck down in unmatched numbers. And Africa's disease toll from malaria may be even higher than previously recognized. Recent research has found that malaria infection increases the likelihood that an HIV-infected individual will transmit the AIDS virus to others. Many millions are also infected simultaneously with malaria and worm infections, multiplying the disease burden...
...Saddam's downfall has not heralded a new Middle East. The primary concern of Arabs across the region today is the emerging civil war in Iraq and its potential breakup as a state, which threatens to spread a virus of instability across the region. Pro-Western Sunni regimes such as Saudi Arabia and Jordan are increasingly concerned about growing Iranian influence in post-Saddam Iraq, while Turkey is concerned about the creation of a de facto Kurdish mini-state in northern Iraq that may spur greater agitation by Turkey's own Kurdish minority. President Bush's belated acknowledgement that things...
...also chair of the School of Public Health’s Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, said that the finding could help producers of malaria vaccines respond to adaptations by the parasite in much the same way as the influenza vaccine is updated to combat changes in that virus. “We’ll be able to monitor to see if vaccines are working and also to develop new vaccines,” Wirth said in a phone interview from Senegal, where she is running a workshop on her study’s results. Wirth?...