Posted on 26 November 2009. Tags: Adrian Gibbs, Australian National University, Canberra, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, Christchurch, Downie, Jean Downie, John Armstrong, Mexico, New Zealand, Pandemic, Simeon Bennett, Singapore, Swine Flu, SYDNEY, Virology Journal, Westmead Hospital, World Health Organization
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) — Adrian Gibbs, the virologist who said in May that swine flu may have escaped from a laboratory, published his findings today, renewing discussion about the origins of the pandemic virus.
The new H1N1 strain, which was discovered in Mexico and the U.S. in April, may be the product of three strains from three continents that swapped genes in a lab or a vaccine-making plant, Gibbs, and fellow Australian scientists wrote in Virology Journal. The authors analyzed the genetic makeup of the virus and found its origin could be more simply explained by human involvement than a coincidence of nature. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 November 2009. Tags: australia, continental islands, coral cays, coral reefs, Earth, facts, Kuwait, natural wonders of the world, nature, outer space, reef, Rwanda, Singapore, Slovakia, the Dominican Republic, The Great Barrier Reef
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Posted on 13 October 2009. Tags: 2005, 2006, Abidjan, africa, Amsterdam, BBC Newsnight, Bell Pottinger, British, Claude Dauphin, Dutch, Greenpeace, Ibeanu, Ivory Coast, Leigh Day, london, Martyn Day, mercaptans, Naeem Ahmed, Norwegian TV, oil trader, phenols, pollution disasters, Probo Koala, Raigo Pajula, Singapore, The Guardian, toxic waste, Trafigura, Volkskrant, waste dumping
Trafigura chartered the Probo Koala to take the waste to Africa. Photograph: Raigo Pajula/AFP
The British oil trader Trafigura has offered to pay out in a historic damages claim from 31,000 Africans injured by the dumping of toxic waste in one of the worst pollution disasters in recent history, the Guardian can reveal. Read the full story
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