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Jennifer Garcia

Ebola: 'We're at an absolute tipping point,' warns David Miliband | World news | The Gu... - 2 views

www.theguardian.com/...d-miliband-warns-tipping-point

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  • “One of the things that has become starkly clear to me in my visit is that there’s no grey area here between controlling the disease on the one hand and widespread disaster on the other. We’re at an absolute tipping point where either the disease is contained to the low tens of thousands, or it becomes an epidemic of a very serious kind.”
    • Jennifer Garcia
      Jennifer Garcia on 10 Oct 14
       
      This is the former foreign secretary of the UK reporting from Liberia and Sierra Leone on the Ebola outbreak to the Guardian. 
  • Jennifer Garcia on 10 Oct 14
     
    This is the former foreign secretary of the UK reporting from Liberia and Sierra Leone on the Ebola outbreak to the Guardian. 
ximenamartinez

Ebola epidemic may not end without developing vaccine, scientist warns | World news | T... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...eter-piot-west-africa-epidemic

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  • Ebola epidemic may not end without developing vaccine, scientist warns Professor Peter Piot, one of the scientists who discovered Ebola, claims scale of outbreak has got ‘completely out of hand’
  • The Ebola epidemic, which is out of control in three countries and directly threatening 15 others, may not end until the world has a vaccine against the disease, according to one of the scientists who discovered the virus.
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      ximenamartinez on 24 Oct 14
       
      Ebola is out of control and threatens 3 countries and immediately 15 others. 
  • Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said it would not have been difficult to contain the outbreak if those on the ground and the UN had acted promptly earlier this year. “Something that is easy to control got completely out of hand,” said Piot, who was part of a team that identified the causes of the first outbreak of Ebola in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, in 1976 and helped bring it to an end.
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      ximenamartinez on 24 Oct 14
       
      Peter Piot knew Ebola was out of hand in 1976 when the first Ebola outbreak happened in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 
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  • Dr Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in evidence to Congress, said he was confident the outbreak would be checked in the US, but stressed the need to halt the raging west African epidemic. “There are no shortcuts in the control of Ebola and it is not easy to control it. To protect the United States we need to stop it at its source,” he said.
    • ximenamartinez
      ximenamartinez on 24 Oct 14
       
      Tom Frieden Director of CDC says Ebola has no shortcuts and it is not easy to control.
christopher2020

BBC News - Hungry US bullfrog invasion spreads - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...world-us-canada-29470438

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  • The bullfrogs not only eat other frogs, but also compete against various animals for food and spread a fungus believed to cause a significant decline in amphibian populations.
  • The bullfrogs not only eat other frogs, but also compete against various animals for food and spread a fungus believed to cause a significant decline in amphibian populations.
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      christopher2020 on 24 Oct 14
       
      What is one of the causes of this current event? The bullfrogs not only eat other frogs,but also compete against various animals for food and spread a fungus believed to cause a significant decline in amphibian populations
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      christopher2020 on 24 Oct 14
       
      What is one of the outcomes of this current event so far? "They are going to eat anything they can fit into their mounts. It doesn't matter if it's another frog or a bird or a mosquito," US Geological Survey biologist Adam Sepulveda told the Associated Press news agency.
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      christopher2020 on 24 Oct 14
       
      Think about what you have learned about this current event so far. Think about the different sides and opinions involved. What is your opinion about this event?I think they should trap all the hungry bullfrogs and safe the amphibian population.
  • christopher2020 on 17 Oct 14
     
    Scientists are reporting an invasion of hungry American bullfrogs along the Yellowstone River in the US state of Montana. The bullfrogs are said to eat nearly anything, including other bullfrogs, and pose a threat to native species. The number of the animal's breeding sites has nearly quadrupled since 2010.
ximenamartinez

Madrid hospital staff quit over Ebola fears | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...drid-hospital-staff-quit-ebola

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  • Carlos III hospital in Madrid is scrambling to contract extra personnel as worries about lack of training and safety standards have left some staff refusing to attend to possible Ebola cases.
ivanna salome

BBC News - Ebola: Mapping the outbreak - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...world-africa-28755033

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  • Up to 19 October, 4,877 people had been reported as having died from the disease in five countries; Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and the United States. The total number of reported cases is in excess of 9,900.
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ivanna salome

Andean music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Andean music is a group of styles of music from the Andes region in Southamerica.
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      ivanna salome on 12 Feb 14
       
      the style of the andean music is from south america 
  • Andean music has served as a major source of inspiration for the neo-folkloric Nueva canción movement that begun in the 60s, Nueva canción musicians both interpreted old songs and created new pieces that are now considered andean music. Some Nueva canción musicians such as Los Jaivas would fuse Andean music with psychedelic and progressive rock.
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      Gabriela Rodriguez on 12 Feb 14
       
      nueva cancion fact 
  • The panpipes group include the sikú (or zampoña) and antara. These are ancient indigenous instruments that vary in size, tuning and style. Instruments in this group are constructed from aquatic reeds found in many lakes in the Andean Region of South America. The sikú has two rows of canes and are tuned in either pentatonic or diatonic scales. Some modern single-rowed panpipes modeled after the native Antara are capable of playing full scales, while traditional Sikús are played using two rows of canes wrapped together.
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      ivanna salome on 12 Feb 14
       
      the different instruments in andean are pinpipes siku zampona and antara
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  • Quenas (notched-end flutes) remain popular and are traditionally made out of the same aquatic canes as the Sikús, although PVC pipe is sometimes used due to its resistance to heat, cold and humidity.
  • It includes folklore music of parts of Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela. Andean music is popular to different degrees across Latin America,
  • The Nueva Canción movement of the 70s revived the genre across Latin America and brought it to places where it was unknown or forgotten.
  • quenas only are played during the
  • dry season
  • vertical flutes, either pinkillos or tarkas, being played during the wet season.
  • Tarkas are constructed from local Andean hard wood sources
  • Marching bands dominated by drums and panpipes are commonplace today and are used to celebrate weddings, carnivals and other holidays.
  • The twentieth century saw drastic changes in Andean society and culture. Bolivia, for example, saw a nationalistic revolution in 1952,
  • Los Curacas took the fusion work of Los Jairas and the Parras to invent nueva canción, which returned to Bolivia in the 1980s in the form of canto nuevo artists such as Emma Junaro and Matilde Casazola.
  • The 1970s was a decade in which Andean music saw its biggest growth.
  • Different groups sprang out of the different villages throughout the Andes Region. Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia and Argentina.
  • hey would later take Andean music to the rest of the world.
  • Originally from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, cumbia became a hit in Peru and through much of Latin America. It was then adapted to a "Peruvian" version called "Chicha" that has become a popular style in the Andean region, specially among in the lower socioeconomic strata of the society including Quechua and Aymara populations
ximenamartinez

Ebola Survival Rates: Why Patients' Outcomes Vary - 0 views

www.ibtimes.com/patients-outcomes-vary-1708555

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  • The overall survival rate of the current Ebola outbreak, the largest in history with more than 9,200 confirmed or suspected cases, is around 50 percent, according to the World Health Organization. That's a better outcome than most previous outbreaks, many of which had survival rates less than 30 percent. Sierra Leone’s survival rate is currently about 65 percent. Guinea’s hovers around 50 percent, and Liberia’s is around 40 percent, the WHO reports.
  • hat's a better outcome than most previous outbreaks, many of which had survival rates less than 30 percent.
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