Tag: the-indoor
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New $65 million anti-malaria push to protect 50 million through affordable home spray
A new $65 million initiative to boost malaria control and combat resistance to insecticides by improving access to new, low-cost anti-mosquito sprays across Africa was announced on Monday. The initiative by the health agency UNITAID and non-profit group IVCC will be rolled out over four years with a goal of protecting as many as 50…
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New $65 million anti-malaria push to protect 50 million through affordable home spray
A new $65 million initiative to boost malaria control and combat resistance to insecticides by improving access to new, low-cost anti-mosquito sprays across Africa was announced on Monday. The initiative by the health agency UNITAID and non-profit group IVCC will be rolled out over four years with a goal of protecting as many as 50…
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U.N. rights boss urges Turkey to probe shooting by security forces
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations' top human rights official urged Turkey on Monday to investigate the shooting of unarmed people 10 days ago in its largely Kurdish southeast and said any members of the security forces committing rights abuses should be prosecuted. Southeastern Turkey has seen its worst violence in two…
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WHO meets to decide whether to declare Zika a global emergency
Independent experts to the World Health Organization began deliberating on Monday whether to declare a global emergency over the Zika virus, which has been linked to thousands of birth defects in Brazil. The United Nations agency said last week the Zika virus was “spreading explosively” and could infect as many as 4 million people in…
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Britain gives scientist go-ahead to genetically modify human embryos
By Kate Kelland LONDON, Feb 1 (Reuters) – – Scientists in Britain have been give the go-ahead to edit the genes of human embryos for research, using a technique that some say could eventually be used to create “designer babies”. Less than a year after Chinese scientists caused an international furore by saying they had…