Mycomya Rondani specimens from the islands of South-East Asia, i.e. Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, are revised. The paper includes a key to the Mycomya species of the South-East Asian islands. The following six new species are described: M. shimai sp. n. from Java, Indonesia, M. pongo sp. n. from Sabah, Malaysia, and M. apoensis sp. n., M. nakanishii sp. n., M. paraklossi sp. n. and M...

A 29 year old Thai woman presented with non-specific features and examination revealed left upper zone consolidation and hepatosplenomegaly. The initial clinical differential diagnosis included tuberculosis and melioidosis. She died four days after admission, while still under investigation. Postmortem examination revealed antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus, disseminated Penicillium mar...

A pandemic of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis occurred in south-east Asia during 1970 and 1971, and became epidemic in Lucknow in May 1971. From the conjunctival swabs adenovirus-like agents were isolated in monkey kidney tissue culture; one was typed as adenovirus 2. In paired sera rising antibody titres were found against an adeno-like agent isolated and the picornavirus (EC2/71) isolated i...

Presently, two species of Chiropotes are recognized: Chiropotes albinasus and C. satanas. The latter includes three subspecies, namely C. s. satanas, C. s. chiropotes and C. s. utahicki (see Hershkovitz, 1985; Rylands et al., 2000; Groves, 2001). C. albinasus is found to the south of the Rio Amazonas between the Rios Xingu and Madeira, and C. satanas is found to the east of the Rio Xingu, south...

General.?Barwadih, a railway settlement on the Gomoh-Sone East Bank branch of East Indian Railway, is 18 miles south-west of Daltonganj. It is situated 348 miles west of Calcutta in the hilly tracts of the Ranclii plateau in the Palamau district of Bihar province. The range of hills to the south of the colony is a branch of the Vindhyas. Physical geography and meteorological data. ?Latitude 23....

In 1988, the World Health Assembly resolved to interrupt wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission worldwide. By 2006, the annual number of WPV cases had decreased by more than 99%, and only four remaining countries had never interrupted WPV transmission: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan (1). The last confirmed WPV case in India occurred in January 2011 (2), leading the World Health Organizat...

aWorld Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to Amaya Maw-Naing (e-mail: [email protected]) Almost 30 years since it was first reported in 1983, the HIV epidemic remains a serious public health issue globally, and particularly in countries of the WHO South-East Asia Region (SEAR). The overwhelming global efforts to combat HIV/AIDS over the pa...

Devolution appears to challenge the traditional regional and national hierarchies of the UK, but in practice the dominance of the South East of England has been maintained through active state intervention. As social welfare has increasingly been redefined through economic success and access to the labour market, the focus of social policy has shifted accordingly. In this context the South East...

We present the findings of a survey to determine the prevalence of inherited haemoglobin disorders in the Coloured (mixed ethnic origin) population of South Africa. A variety of haemoglobins was found. Of the structural variants, Hb E and Hb S were the most common, the former probably originating from South-East Asia and the latter from East Africa and possibly Madagascar. The alpha+ (-alpha) t...