Aneurysmal diseases are often silent but can cause potentially life-threatening complications in cases of dissection or rupture. Surgical strategies depend on the involved part of the aorta and frequently require extracorporeal circulation and circulatory arrest. From data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, aneurysm disease is the 18th most common cause of death in a...

BARTELS? HEINZ, PETER HILPERT, KLAUS BARBEY, KLAUS BETKE, KLAUS RIEGEL, ERNST MICHAEL LANG, AND JAMES METCALFE. Respiratory functions uf blood uf the yak, llama, camel, Dybowski deer, and African elephant. Am. J. Physiol. 205(2): 331-336. I963* -Blood samples from a yak, llama, camel, deer, and African elephant were analyzed for oxygen capacity, Ccstandard bicarbonate” content, oxygen dissociat...

The objective of this study was to determine the density and habitat preference of the Black-andrufous elephant-shrew (Rhynchocyon petersi) in Chome Forest Reserve, Tanzania. Chome Forest (143km2) is located in the South Pare Mountains and provides critical habitat for endangered R. petersi. Twelve 300m transects were cut through the centre of the forest in an east-west direction and the number...

Species (Cites) in 1989, to halt the steep decline in elephant numbers. “Wild elephant populations were decimated by the ivory trade. By the time the 1989 Cites ban came into force, Africa’s elephants had been reduced by more than 50 per cent,” says Mark Jones, programmes director at Care for the Wild, an international wildlife charity which commissioned the mammoth ivory report. “Poaching cont...

To the Editor: Despite the eradi-cation of smallpox in the past century , other orthopoxviruses, such as monkeypox virus, vaccinia virus in Brazil, and cowpox virus (CPXV) in Europe (1), still infect humans. CPXV has been restricted to the Old World with wild rodents as its natural reservoir (2,3). Human CPXV infections are commonly described in relation to contact with diseased domestic cats, ...