Lethal Chinese Avian Flu Baffles Experts A team of flu experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) were in China this week to seek answers on how to deal with the dangerous H7N9 avian flu. The disease thus far has infected 108 people and killed 22 of them. The WHO experts said that in terms of fatality rates, it is one of the most lethal flu viruses that has ever been identified. To date, there is little evidence it is being spread among humans; otherwise, the number of people infected would be much greater. Yet, the number of cases detected in two months is greater than the number of people in China that were infected in China with the H5N1 avian flu in a decade. Most of the global deaths from H5N1 occurred out of China.One of the...
ZanzibarMnemba Marine Parksouthern cassowary Mnemba Marine Park is located 10 kilometres (6 mi) from Stone Town and forms part of the northeastern Unguja Island. A marine reserve and atoll, its shallow stretch of coral reef is in the shape of an oval. It is located between Matemwe and Nungwi, w...
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Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
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Like all marmots
An adult Vancouver Island marmot typically measures 65 to 70 centimetres (26 to 28 in) from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.