Month: December 2008
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Malaria vaccine coming?
The GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) pharmaceutical laboratory may have found the right one with a vaccine that is set to immediately enter phase III clinical trials. It has already succesfully tested on American volunteers and on 340 Tanzanian children. It seems to reduce the infection risk by 65% – without unpleasant interaction. All people traveling to tropical…
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Who’s hunting who?
Link to YouTube
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The cheetahs’ dinner
These three young cheetah males are actually very powerful, hunt together, take advantage of any kind of possible prey. In this case, one of them caught an isolated young gnu, just after the rain at the end of the afternoon. What happened seemed quite normal: They need to kill the prey (quite commonly by strangling…