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Weather forecasts can be a potential tool to help combat meningitis

Weather forecasts can be a potential tool to help combat meningitis
Scientists are using weather-based surveillance to predict impending meningitis outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa, making weather forecasts a possible tool to help health services combat the disease.
Meningitis affects more than five million people globally each year, with one in ten dying and two in ten left with an impairment such as brain injury or amputation, according to Meningitis Research Foundation.
The early-warning system being piloted across Africa uses weather data to give up to two weeks advanced warning of conditions that are likely to trigger a meningitis outbreak, project leaders say. ....

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Weather forecasts a 'life-saving tool against meningitis'

An anemometer. Copyright: Image by RitaE from Pixabay
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Scientists use weather data to predict location and scale of impending cases
The prediction helps country-level health services to plan emergency responses
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SciDev.Net article on threat to Ebo Forest helps save endangered and rare species

The tropical Ebo Forest in Southwest Cameroon is known for its unique ecosystem and for being a home to endangered and rare species. However, in early 2020, the Cameroon government approved the creation of logging concessions in the forest. SciDev.Net published a story about the threat posed by the concessions to the communities and wildlife of the forest. By August 2020, the concessions had been cancelled. Local NGO Foder believes media attention, including SciDev.Net’s article, played an important role in this cancellation. ....

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SciDev.Net helps inventors share free microscope technology across Latin America

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Press 'censored' as COVID-19 pushes events online

22/04/21
Press ‘censored’ as COVID-19 pushes events online
The shift to online events has made it easier for organisers to control information, writes Joel Adriano. Copyright: Image by Joshua Woroniecki from Pixabay. This image has been cropped.
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Searching questions are often filtered or ignored
Journalists look forward to return to ‘normality’
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