South Atlantic island record reveals a South Atlantic response to the 8.2 kyr event K. Ljung, S. Björck, H. Renssen, and D. Hammarlund Geobiosphere Science Centre, Department of Geology, Quaternary Sciences, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands Received: 24 April 20...

Measles, a highly contagious acute viral disease, can result in serious complications and death. As a result of a successful U.S. vaccination program, measles elimination (i.e., interruption of endemic measles transmission) was declared in the United States in 2000. The number of reported measles cases has declined from 763,094 in 1958 to fewer than 150 cases reported per year since 1997. Durin...

are insanitary. It may also occur in mining communities in Europe if there is a combination of hot moist conditions and poor hygiene (Adams and Maegraith, 1960). The disease causes iron-deficiency anaemia because of loss of blood. The worm attaches itself to the mucosa of the small intestine and sucks the blood of the human host, passing it through its own lumen into the lumen of the gut. In ad...

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