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Ghostly goings-on at Leeds museum

ghostvillage.com     Jul 21, 2008          

Published Date: 19 July 2008 GHOST hunters are heading for Leeds to team up with the award-winning, multi-ghost haunted, Thackray Medical Museum. The overnight event on July 26, between 7pm and 2am, features a special 'haunted...                

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Monkeys caught in the crossfire of Russian politics

scrippsnews.com     Jul 18, 2008          

SUKHUMI, Georgia -- Only the monkeys seem oblivious to the destruction that rained for years on this once-renowned research institute. Limber-limbed macaques swing from the rafters of their narrow cages like miniature acrobats,...                

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THE THIRD PART OF NIGHT (Andrzej Żuławski, 1971)

grunes.wordpress.com     Jul 17, 2008          

During the Second World War the Weigl Institute, led by Polish biologist Rudolf Weigl, employed Poles, including Jews, resistance fighters and intellectuals, using their blood to produce vaccine for epidemic typhus. This...                

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Monkeys caught in crossfire of Russian politics

theglobeandmail.com     Jul 14, 2008   1 related          

From space travellers to post-traumatic stress victims, primates at Abkhazia's research institute follow the fortunes of their rulers JANE ARMSTRONG From Monday's Globe and Mail SUKHUMI, GEORGIA — Only the monkeys seem...                

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Campaign against pests at eateries

thestar.com.my     Jul 7, 2008          

YOU can make a difference in the war against rats, which StarMetro had recently highlighted. In our report, some 2,000 rodents have been killed by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall as part of their pilot project in rodent eradication...                

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Queensland tick typhus

medicinenet.com     Jul 5, 2008          

Queensland tick typhus: One of the tick-borne rickettsial diseases of the eastern hemisphere. Queensland tick typhus is similar to Rocky Mountain spotted fever, another tick-borne rickettsial disease, but is less severe. The...                

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Rodents on the increase in KL and PJ

thestar.com.my     Jul 3, 2008   3 related          

Stories by CHRISTINA LOW and FAZLEENA AZIZ IT SEEMS as if rats in the Klang Valley are taking advantage of this Year of the Rat. According to Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) health director Dr Zainol Ariffin Pawanchee, most rats...                

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Epidemic typhus.

biowizard.com     Jul 2, 2008          

Unit for Research on Emergent and Tropical Infectious Diseases (URMITE), CNRS-IRD UMR 6236, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Mediterranean, Marseille, France. Epidemic typhus is transmitted to human beings by the body...                

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H2H BIRD FLU ACTUALLY MORE COMMON AND DEADLIER THAN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED

astuteblogger.blogspot.com     Jun 21, 2008          

RECOMBINOMICS: H5N1 Misdiagnosis In Indonesia Hides H2H TransmissionSardikin Giriputro, director of the Sulianti Saroso Infectious Disease Hospital in Indonesia, told an infectious disease conference in Kuala Lumpur that...                

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The Third Part of the Night

notcoming.com     Jun 18, 2008          

What’s most striking about The Third Part of the Night is how, in his very first film, Zulawski’s themes and aesthetics are already full-formed. The film is literally swept along by the swirl of main character Michal’s...                

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