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New Drug in the War against Malaria

A new drug against the parasite that causes malaria

The parasite that causes malaria has not, so far, developed a resistance to a new drug being developed in France. Will flooding an area with sterile tsetse flies prevent the transmission of trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)? How do migratory birds navigate by the stars? It's not just the Nile perch that is killing off the wildlife in Lake Victoria, Africa's biggest lake. How adult diseases might be programmed into us before we're even born. Encouraging Afghan refugee girls into school again, particularly science education.

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成人快手 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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