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Courtesy: Lisa Cain, Ph.D. of the African Scientific Institute ‘Brain-eating amoeba’ claims second victim by Zachary Roth, Senior National Affairs Reporter, 8/17/2011 A parasite known as the "brain-eating amoeba" has claimed its second young American victim. Christian Strickland, a 9-year-old from Henrico County in Virginia contracted an infection after visiting a fishing camp in his state. He died of meningitis on August 5. This week, health department officials confirmed that the deadly amoeba--officially known as "Naegleria fowleri"--was to blame. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New drug could cure nearly any viral infection August 10, 2011, Anne Trafton, MIT News Office Researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Lab have developed technology that may someday cure the common cold, influenza and other ailments. Most bacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics such as penicillin, discovered decades ago. However, such drugs are useless against viral infections, including influenza, the common cold, and deadly hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola. Now, in a development that could transform how viral infections are treated, a team of researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory has designed a drug that can identify cells that have been infected by any type of virus, then kill those cells to terminate the infection. In a paper published July 27 in the journal PLoS One, the researchers tested their drug against 15 viruses, and found it was effective against all of them — including rhinoviruses that cause the common cold, H1N1 influenza, a stomach virus, a polio virus, dengue fever and several other types of hemorrhagic fever. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nigeria Launches Two Satellites Abuja, Aug 17 (PTI) Determined to firm up its drive towards technological advancement, especially in relation to Information Communications Technology (ICT), Nigeria today launched two observation satellites into the orbit to be used for disaster management, with President Goodluck Jonathan describing the move as another milestone in his country's effort to solve national problems through space technology. NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X will add new, higher resolution imaging capability to the Disaster Monitoring Constellation, a fleet of separately owned small satellites, coordinated by DMC International Imaging Ltd (DMCii) for daily global monitoring. Furthermore, NigeriaSat-2 can be used to avoid or manage any occurrence of man-made disasters like oil pollution, desertification, erosion, forest fire, and deforestation. In agriculture, it is used for mapping, land use planning, management of sustainable grazing, forest logging, planning afforestation programmes, crop inventory and yield forecast. Courtesy : "Lee O. Cherry of the African Scientific Institute Aug, 2011
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