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Climatic variations influence the emergence of cholera in Africa

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Health, Ocean, climate, impacts - Togo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Bangladesh

July 2007

Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It is rife mainly in the tropical regions where it affects 100 000 people per year. Previous studies in Bangladesh and South America have shown the existence of a relation between climatic variations and the ...

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Malaria: effective insecticide-repellent synergy against mosquito vectors

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Health - Benin, Burkina Faso

June 2007

Abusive and inappropriate use of some insecticides, particularly pyrethroids, has caused resistance to develop among certain populations of disease-vector mosquitoes. These insects become insensitive to treatments applied to them. IRD researchers and their partners (1) devised a new control ...

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