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CIDRZ Recovery: Stronger Institutions for Health and Development

CIDRZ Recovery: Stronger Institutions for Health and Development

CIDRZ reforms and rebuilds its research, public health, and development programs to deliver better science, health care, and local talent capacity-building.

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Publication of Second Bird Flu Paper

Publication of Second Bird Flu Paper

After prolonged controversy, Science magazine has published in its current issue the second of the bird flu papers detailing how a human-transmissible virus could spontaneously arise in nature. This one, by a team lead by Ron Fouchier in Rotterdam (see photo), identified five mutations in the H5N1 virus itself that could render it transmissible through […]

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Losing a Mother in Bangladesh Implies 25% Probability of Reaching 10 Years of Age

Using data from population surveys from 1982 to 2005, an  international group of researchers estimated that in Bangladesh, losing a mother implies that a child has about a 25% chance of reaching 10 years of age. The numbers speak for themselves.  Those who did not lose their mothers had an 89% chance of reaching the […]

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