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[from amaah] Denial is no defence against West Nile

It turns out mosquitoes love a housing crisis. "Green pools" - swimming pools left stagnant and untended as a result of mortgage foreclosures - are one factor in the increase. Mosquitoes lay their eggs in standing water and, for some species, the slimier the better. Not all mosquitoes carry West Nile. Canada has 74 species of mosquitoes and West Nile has been detected in 10 of them.

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[from amaah] Seattle to Remove Automated Toilets

the restrooms, installed in early 2004, had become so filthy, so overrun with drug abusers and prostitutes, that although use was free of charge, even some of the city's most destitute people refused to step inside them.

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[from amaah] Dengue outbreak shows dark side of Rio de Janeiro

Rather than blame the stripe-bellied Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads the ailment, critics say officials were slow to fumigate and take other action during the summer, when heavy rains created optimum mosquito breeding grounds.

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[from amaah] Malaria climbs into warmer highlands

As the Earth warms, however, malaria epidemics in the highlands are now basically happening every year... Papua New Guinea is not immune from the Mosquito Principle

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[from amaah] Using shame to change sanitary habits

The village's self-appointed sanitation guardian, Singh is on the lookout for anyone squatting in the fields or alleys, using the cover of darkness to do what millions of people have always done across India: defecate outdoors. It takes coercion to change

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[from amaah] Little-Known Virus Challenges a Far-Flung Health System

A little-known virus is causing a big fuss in Micronesia.The Zika virus, spread by mosquitoes, produces an itchy rash, pinkeye, joint pain and fever. Since its discovery 60 years ago in an ill monkey in the Zika forest in Uganda, it has caused rare cases

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[from amaah] A New Home for DDT

DDT's spatial repellency, by keeping mosquitoes from making physical contact, reduces the likelihood that the insects will develop resistance. Even those mosquitoes already resistant to poisoning by DDT are repelled by it.

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[from amaah] That Dropped Doughnut: How Soon, and How Often, Will It Come Back Up?

A brief history of floor-snacking: Some folklorists have cited the five-second rule as an invention of Genghis Khan (who supposedly called it the 20-hour rule), but there's no proof. Medieval etiquette books make no prohibition against eating off the floo

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[from amaah] Michigan’s Summer Fishing Turns Less Carefree

Regulations to slow the spread of a virulent disease that has killed thousands of fish. The disease, called V.H.S., is caused by a virus that is not believed to be harmful to humans but brings about internal bleeding in fish. The affliction is still large

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