Who is at risk?
Travelers who go to these islands in the Caribbean are at risk of getting chikungunya. In addition, travelers to Africa, Asia, and islands in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific are also at risk, as the virus is present in many of these areas. The mosquito that carries chikungunya virus can bite during the day and night, both indoors and outdoors, and often lives around buildings in urban areas.
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Prevent mosquito bites:
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Ebola: WHO lists 15 priority countries - Africa - Al Jazeera English - 0 views
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This week we will cross 9,000 cases of Ebola and 4,500 deaths. The outbreak continues to hit health workers hard. So far 427 health care workers have been infected with Ebola and 236 have died.
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The Government of Nicaragua opens specialized care center to care for patients suspected of being infected with Ebola, announced Wednesday spokeswoman Rosario Murillo.
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Todo sobre el virus de Chikungunya - El Salvador Mi País - 1 views
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Historia del virus Realmente no se trata de una enfermedad nueva (aunque si lo es en El Salvador). El Chiquingunya fue detectado por primera vez en 1953 en Tanzania. Sin embargo ha sido en la última década cuando se ha producido un mayor desarrollo de esta enfermedad en el mundo. El Salvador ha sido el primer país de centro américa en reportar el primer caso, el 22 de mayo de 2014, a través de un paciente que tenía dolores fuertes en sus articulaciones. En el continente americano fue detectado por primera vez en diciembre del 2013.
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"Realmente no se trata de una enfermedad nueva (aunque si lo es en El Salvador). El Chiquingunya fue detectado por primera vez en 1953 en Tanzania. Sin embargo ha sido en la última década cuando se ha producido un mayor desarrollo de esta enfermedad en el mundo. El Salvador ha sido el primer país de centro américa en reportar el primer caso, el 22 de mayo de 2014, a través de un paciente que tenía dolores fuertes en sus articulaciones. En el continente americano fue detectado por primera vez en diciembre del 2013."
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El Salvador says nearly 30,000 infected with mosquito-borne chikungunya - NY... - 0 views
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El Salvador has detected nearly 30,000 cases of the painful mosquito-borne viral disease chikungunya, and has undertaken measures to prevent the disease-carrying mosquitoes breeding, the head of the country's emergency services said on Wednesday.
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Since June, when the first case was reported, there have been 29,704 people infected by the virus, with 204 of them hospitalized, Jorge Melendez told Reuters. "Having never been in contact with this strain, the Salvadoran population has no defense," Melendez said, adding that nobody has died from the outbreak. Melendez said most of the cases have been reported in the capital city of San Salvador, where authorities have been cleaning rivers and fumigating. Infection with the virus, spread by two mosquito species, typically is not fatal but can cause debilitating symptoms including fever, headache and severe joint pain lasting weeks or months. There is no current treatment and no licensed vaccine to prevent it. The virus showed up for the first time in the Americas late last year. In the United States, locally transmitted infections — as opposed to infections in Americans traveling abroad — have been reported for the first time this year.
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Ebola: 'We're at an absolute tipping point,' warns David Miliband | World news | The Gu... - 2 views
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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.”
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This is the former foreign secretary of the UK reporting from Liberia and Sierra Leone on the Ebola outbreak to the Guardian.
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This is the former foreign secretary of the UK reporting from Liberia and Sierra Leone on the Ebola outbreak to the Guardian.
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The haunting sounds of bamboo pipes have formed a part of the Andean landscape for over two millennia. The Andean melodies most people are exposed to today, however, are a result of centuries of colonialism and the migrations of peoples from different regions and continents.
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Many people associate indigenous Andean instruments to the time of the Inca. Flutes are generically labeled “Inca Pan-Pipes”
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While the Incas certainly employed the instruments we know as “Andean”
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they introduced styles of music and instruments during their conquests.
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How the Andes be inmuned to forces of globalization? Spanish conquest made some changes in the Andean music world. They introduce the string instruments,
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Japan's Latest Pop-Music Craze? Kids - Patrick St. Michel - The Atlantic - 0 views
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Mana Ashida is the most famous child in Japan
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The seven-year-old has starred in a dozen movies over the past three years,
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Alongside Marumo co-star and fellow seven-year-old Fuku Suzuki, she recorded the hit "Maru Maru Mori Mori!,"
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But Ashida's biggest claim to ubiquity is music
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Ashida and Suzuki the youngest artists to ever appear in the Japanese music charts' top 10.
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Ashida, who released her latest song on May 16, stands as an extreme example of the Japanese music industry's recent embrace of young performers.
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Mana Ashida is the most famous child in japan.He is 7 year old he hva made dozen of movies over last three years.Ashida starts to play music because he really want to sing.He made a song with marumo co-star and it was a hit called maru maru mori mori. -
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Mana Ashida are the most famous kids in Japan.They have seven years old.They have been in a dozen movies.
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Mana Ashida are the most famous kids in Japan.They have seven years old.They have been in a dozen movies.
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The History of British Pop Music | The Magnets - 0 views
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It's a video showing the different types of british musics that have changed since 1960's to 2000's. They use the songs of the bands to interpret it.
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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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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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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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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.
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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,
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The Nueva Canción movement of the 70s revived the genre across Latin America and brought it to places where it was unknown or forgotten.
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quenas only are played during the
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vertical flutes, either pinkillos or tarkas, being played during the wet season.
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Tarkas are constructed from local Andean hard wood sources
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Marching bands dominated by drums and panpipes are commonplace today and are used to celebrate weddings, carnivals and other holidays.
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The twentieth century saw drastic changes in Andean society and culture. Bolivia, for example, saw a nationalistic revolution in 1952,
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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.
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The 1970s was a decade in which Andean music saw its biggest growth.
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Different groups sprang out of the different villages throughout the Andes Region. Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia and Argentina.
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hey would later take Andean music to the rest of the world.
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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
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This page, seems reliable and also very interesting. I believe it's an outstanding page!
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For most people outside Latin America the sound of the Andes is that of bamboo panpipes and quena flutes
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The dominant areas of Andean culture are Peru , Ecuador and Bolivia, the countries with the largest indigenous Amerindian populations in South America.
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Andean music can be divided roughly into three types. Firstly, that which is of indigenous origin , found mostly amongst rural Amerindian peoples still living very much by the seasons with root Amerindian beliefs; secondly music of European origin , and thirdly mestizo music, which continues to fuse the indigenous with European in a whole host of ways.
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e outside Latin America the sound of the Andes is that of bamboo panpipes and quena flutes.
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most remarkable is that these instruments have been used to create music in various parts of this large area of mountains - which stretch 4500 miles from Venezula down to southernmost Chile - since before the time of the Incas. Pre-Conquest Andean instruments - conch shell trumpets, shakers which used nuts for rattles, ocarinas, wind instruments and drums - are ever present in museum collections. And the influence of the Inca Empire means that the Andean region and its music spreads far beyond the mountains themselves
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Peruvian oldest musical traditions are those of the Amerindians of the Andes. Their music is best known outside the country through the characteristic panpipes of poncho-clad folklore groups. However, there's a multitude of rhythms and popular music found here deserve a lot more recognition, including and, still relatively unknown abroad, as well as the distinct coastal tradition of, rooted in black slaves brought to work in the mines.
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Quechua (currently spoken by over six million people) and Aymara, both of which are spoken alongside Spanish and other Amerindian languages.
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For most people outside Latin America the sound of the Andes is that of bamboo panpipes and quena flutes.
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this large area of mountains -
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Peruvian oldest musical traditions are those of the Amerindians of the Andes. Their music is best known outside the country through the characteristic panpipes of poncho-clad folklore groups. However, there's a multitude of rhythms and popular music found here deserve a lot more recognition, including and, still relatively unknown abroad, as well as the distinct coastal tradition of, rooted in black slaves brought to work in the mines.
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peruvian oldest musical tradition are those o the armendians of the andes. Their music
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Peruvian oldest musical traditions are those of the Amerindians of the Andes.
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Use of different scales involving four, five, six and seven notes and different singing styles are also found from place to place, tied to specific ritual occasions and the music which goes with them.
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an oldest musical traditions are those of the Amerindians of the Andes. Their music is best known outside the country through the characteristic panpipes of poncho-clad folklore groups. However, there's a multitude of rhythms and popular music found here deserve a lot more recognition, including and, still relatively unknown abroad, as well as the distinct coastal tradition of, rooted in black slaves brought to work in the mines.
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peruvian music is the oldest musical tradition of the Amerindians in the Andes.the music is known through the woodwind family, means panpipes and all that type of flutes.the Andes is a stretch of 4500 miles from Venezuela to chie.
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A Look at the Koto - Koto - Virtual Culture - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan - 0 views
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A Look at the Koto
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names are written with Chinese characters meaning "dragon's tongue," "dragon's brow," and "dragon's horn."
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The names for the parts of a koto were decided long ago by likening the instrument to a dragon stretched out along the ground.
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The names for the parts of a koto were decided long ago by likening the instrument to a dragon stretched out along the ground.
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After the koto is strung, and the strings are run through holes in the instrument's body and tied off, the leftover string is placed here.
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This section is the main body of the koto.
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This section is the main body of the koto.
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are written with Chinese characters meaning "dragon's tongue," "dragon's brow," and "dragon's horn."
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These supports are slid up and down the instrument to adjust the sound of each string.
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These supports are slid up and down the instrument to adjust the sound of each string.
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they also help transmit the sound from the strings to the body of the koto, making it fuller and richer.
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The koto is not played directly with the fingers.
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The koto is not played directly with the fingers.
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After the koto is strung, and the strings are run through holes in the instrument's body and tied off, the leftover string is placed here.
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this is what we use to play the Koto. You need three of them for your index finger, middle finger and thumb
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This talks about the Koto, how we play it, the part, with what we play it, etc. It was fun reading it!!
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Traditional Japanese Music - Koto - Virtual Culture - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan - 1 views
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Japanese styles of expression. Instruments were adapted and newly created to meet local needs, and the most important of these were the shamisen, shakuhachi, and koto.
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The shakuhachi is a flute made of bamboo that's played by blowing on one end. There are four holes in the front and one in the back, and so it's sometimes called a "five-holed bamboo flute" in English. These five holes are enough to produce a complete range of sounds; in fact, it's the small number of holes that gives the shakuhachi its distinctively poignant tone.
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The shamisen resembles a guitar; it has a long, thin neck and a small, rectangular body covered with skin. I
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it is very interesting because it is saying that that instrument is covered with real skin and iv never seen an instrument of that kind
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musical forms were imported from China more than a thousand years ago, but over the years, they were reshaped into distinctively
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The shamisen resembles a guitar; it has a long, thin neck and a small, rectangular body covered with skin.
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It was the 13-string koto that was carried to Japan during the Nara period (710-794).
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koto, meanwhile, is a large, wooden instrument with 13 strings. It's around 160 centimeters
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The left hand presses down on the strings to bend notes and create other effects.
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Historians think the koto was born around the fifth to third century B.C. in China.
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history of traditional music in Japan is rich and varied.
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it came to be performed by itself.
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commonly performed with the shamisen and shakuhachi or as accompaniment to songs.
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Of the traditional instruments, the koto is probably the most familiar and popular.
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Sadly, modern Japanese rarely hear these traditional instruments being played live these days.
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Many musical forms were imported from China more than a thousand years ago
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This shamisen is similar to a guitar in shape. It is used to play historical traditional japanese music.
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This is the information of the traditional japanese instruments and how are they played. The most important ones were Shamisen, Shakuhachi, and Koto. Koto is the most familiar and popular. I found this website very interesting!
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Instruments Used in Pop Music? - Ask.com - 0 views
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guitars, drums, bass and vocals. These are the most common instruments that bands need to create a good song.
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however difficult to categorize because it always changes with the preference of the public.
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People are talking about some kinds of general instruments pop music plays, however it's different for each kind of the songs rhythm.
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About Japanese Music - 0 views
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this web shows the history of the japanese music,how it grew,how it was and with what type of instruments they started with. Also when it happened who and where
