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- 361: The Ebola Virus
- ... a quarantine in Reston, Virginia (Le Guenno et al 1271). These monkeys were imported to the U.S. from the Philippines. This was the only outbreak of the virus to go outside the continent of Africa. This Reston strain of Ebola appears to be highly pathogenic for some monkey species but not for man (Le Guenno et al 1271). No humans fell victim or even contracted the virus. This also is ... the newest stain of the Ebola family. A Swiss female zoologist, who performed an autopsy on a chimpanzee infected with the same virus in the wild, contracted it. This occurred in the Ivory Coast, West Africa in mid November of 1994. This is the only know case of Ebola Tai and is the first recorded case that infection of a human has been linked to naturally infected monkeys anywhere on the ...
- 362: Male Circumcision: A Social and Medical Misconception
- ... estimates the relative risk of uncircumcised males to be double that of circumcised males for acquiring herpes genitalis, candidiasis, gonorrhea, and syphilis. Simonsen and coworkers performed a case-control study on 340 men in Kenya, Africa in an attempt to explain the different pattern for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) virus in Africa as compared to the United States. (Thompson, 1990) The authors conclude that the relative risk for AIDS was higher for uncircumcised men. Results from similar studies in the United States remain conflicting. Although most of ...
- 363: Runaways and the Abolition Movement: The Underground Railroad
- ... in England and the United States established two African colonies, Sierra Leone and Liberia, as a means to rid African Americans from White society. In fact, the ACS moved nearly 12,000 African Americans to Africa and other areas outside the United States. Not surprisingly, most African Americans, especially in the North, vehemently opposed the motives of the ACS. Yet some African Americans like Paul Cuffee supported its ideals and helped relocate about 3,000 African American emigrants to areas in Africa, the western territories, and Canada. Since few African Americans actually emigrated to these areas, schemes of this type generally failed (Quarles 1969 ; Franklin 1988: 155-56). The antislavery movement played a primary role in assisting ...
- 364: Heart Of Darkness
- ... what is illusion. The main character soon realizes that he has different interpretations of events and physical things than that of the Europeans. Charlie Marlow first realizes how many things, events and even people, in Africa, seemed misnamed by the Europeans, distorting them from what they truly are. Consequently he is wary of labeling something in case he might misname it and as a result devalue it. In the end, Kurtz ... realized the importance of a name and therefore deserve to have one attached to them, as they are really the only people of actual importance and meaning. As soon as Marlow reaches the coast of Africa, he realizes a difference in the perception of certain events by him and his comrades on the boat. As Marlows boat pulls up to the Outer Station, he sees a man-of-war shelling ...
- 365: Turkey Vultures
- ... California condor-belong to a group of raptors called New World vultures. Chromosome analysis shows that the New World vultures are actually more closely related to storks than to the vultures of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Turkey vultures are remarkably successful birds. They range everywhere from parts of Canada and much of the United States to South America. At home in deserts, prairies and woodlands, they have even settled close to ... California condor-belong to a group of raptors called New World vultures. Chromosome analysis shows that the New World vultures are actually more closely related to storks than to the vultures of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Turkey vultures are remarkably successful birds. They range everywhere from parts of Canada and much of the United States to South America. At home in deserts, prairies and woodlands, they have even settled close to ...
- 366: Global Warming--is It Getting Warmer
- ... a thousand feet. Within the next century in America, oceans will cover the Florida Keys and much of Florida, and southern Louisiana. In the Southern Hemisphere, the warming is the greatest over Australia, southern South Africa, the southern tip of South America, and the area of Antarctica nearest Australia. In the northern hemisphere, warming is strongest in Alaska, northwest and eastern Canada, most of the Soviet Union, and parts of southern Asia, North Africa and south west Europe. Climate has cooled in Great Britain and northern and eastern Europe. In the USA, scientists found no overall warming trend in weather records kept since the nineteenth century, however keep in ...
- 367: Platinum
- ... in 1843, a lump weighing over 21 pounds was found in Russia. Russia produces the worlds largest share of platinum-group metals. Other important sources of platinum are located in the Transvaal province in South Africa and in Sudbury, Ont. Colombia and the United States also have sources of platinum. The United States uses about 475,000 troy ounces of platinum a year. About 1/5 of this comes from its ... in which it is often alloyed with gold. It is also used for dental fillings. Platinum is mined all over the world; in the late 1980s the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and South Africa were the leading producers. Canada, with mines in Ontario, where platinum is associated with nickel ore, ranked third in world production. Other leading producers are Colombia and the United States.
- 368: Latin Drug Trade
- ... 2. Latin America). Despite our collective efforts to cut drug traffic in 1997, hundreds of tons of cocaine flowed not only to the United States and Western Europe, but to markets in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Colombian cocaine syndicates have established distribution centers on every continent, as international drug trafficking becomes more sophisticated every year. Now Italian, Turkish, Russian, and Nigerian crime syndicates ... lasting damage at the crop cultivation and financial operations stages. Now we must strengthen these programs and beef up our collective efforts to obtain comparable gains against the illegal drug conglomerates' financial operations. (3. South Africa and the International Drug Trade) In democracies, the drug trade flourishes only when it can divide the population and corrupt institutions. It cannot withstand a concerted, sustained attack by a coalition of nations individually committed ...
- 369: Symbolism In To Kill A Mocking
- ... Tom Robinson by referring to him as a "big buck." Racist symbolism is mixed with bitter irony during one of Aunt Alexandra's missionary circle meetings, as Mrs. Grace Merriweather talks about the Mrunas in Africa. She tells about how they live in "poverty and darkness," with no one but J. Grimes Everett to help them. The Mrunas in Africa actually represent how the blacks live poorly in their quarters in Maycomb. The bitter irony is that the ladies feel sorry for, and are so willing to help the Mrunas, that they overlook the problem ...
- 370: AIDS and Its Causes
- ... first discovered in U.S.A, AIDS has been reported from more than 163 countries around the world and an estimated 10 million people are infected worldwide. Worsestill, the pool of HIV- infected persons in Africa is large and expanding. 2.RISK GROUP AND MODE OF TRANSMISSION Studies in the U.S.A. have retentified five groups of adults at risk for developing AIDS. The case distribution in these groups are ... the enzyme, reverse transcriptase , to replicate its RNA genome to DNA) in the same family as the animal lentivirus family. It is also closely related to HIV- II, which cause a similiar disease, primarily in Africa. 3.1 Biology of HIV-I ( please refer to fig. 1) HIV is a retrovirus inducing immunodeficiency by destruction of target T cells. Like most C-type retrovirus, it is spherical and contains a electron ...
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