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Mosquitoes: The World's Deadliest Animals

Posted May 15, 2008 by Ali S. Khan | comment blurb 0 Comments

Local boy herds cattle near Antananarivo, Madagascar. The area surrounding Antananarivo, Madagascar was not predicted to be a high risk area for Rift Valley Fever this year. Yet as I stepped off the plane from Italy last week, I reviewed a request from the MoH (Madagascar Ministry of Health) through their embassy for U.S. assistance as the epidemic that began in February continues to silently rage in the region…

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New Brain Disease is Blowing Minds

Posted May 2, 2008 by Ali S. Khan | comment blurb 0 Comments

2 pigs grazing in a field. Just saw an email from Alex Thiermann. Of the twelve countries OIE has corresponded with (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom), none have observed anything similar to the newly identified brain illness that is linked, curiously, to the practice of blowing pig brains…

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