Global riot epidemic due to demise of cheap fossil fuels | Nafeez Ahmed
From South America to South Asia, a new age of unrest is in full swing as industrial civilisation transitions to post-carbon realityIf anyone had hoped that the Arab Spring and Occupy protests a few years back were one-off episodes that would soon give way to more stability, they have another thing coming. The hope was that ongoing economic recovery would return to pre-crash levels of growth, alleviating the grievances fueling the fires of civil unrest, stoked by years of recession. But this hasn't happened. And it won't.Instead the post-2008 crash era, including 2013 and early 2014, has seen a persistence and proliferatio...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 28, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Nafeez Ahmed Tags: Environment Science Geology Food Inflation Protest World news Agriculture Climate change Peak oil Venezuela Ukraine theguardian.com Blogposts Source Type: news
Effective use of naloxone among people who inject drugs in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan using pharmacy- and community-based distribution approaches - Kan M, Gall JA, Latypov A, Gray R, Alisheva D, Rakhmatova K, Sadieva AS.
BACKGROUND: Opioid overdose (OD) is a major cause of mortality among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Central Asia, and distribution of naloxone, an opioid antagonist, can effectively prevent these deaths. However, little is known about the use and wastag... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - February 28, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
NASA data find some hope for water in Aral Sea basin
A new study using data from NASA satellite missions finds that, although the long-term water picture for the Aral Sea watershed in Central Asia remains bleak, short-term prospects are better than previously thought. Once the fourth largest inland sea in the world, the Aral Sea has lost 90 percent of its water volume over the last 50 years. Its watershed -- the enormous closed basin around the sea -- encompasses Uzbekistan and parts of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 14, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Bubonic plague outbreak feared in Madagascar
Health experts and authorities on Indian Ocean island launch campaign to clean up rat-infested jails to halt spread of 'black death'Madagascar is at risk of a major outbreak of bubonic plague unless it can clean up its rat-infested jails, health experts have warned.The Indian Ocean island became the most severely affected country in the world last year, with 256 cases and 60 fatalities from the disease known as the "black death" when it swept through Europe in the 14th century.The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Malagasy prison authorities have launched a campaign against rodents in Antanimora priso...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 10, 2013 Category: Science Authors: David Smith Tags: theguardian.com World news Infectious diseases Madagascar Africa Source Type: news
Seven world-firsts for intrepid climbing team
A team of climbers from the University of Bristol have successfully achieved seven world-firsts, summiting seven previously unclimbed peaks in the remote and unknown mountains of Kyrgyzstan. The steep challenge lasted for 18 days in the Djangart mountain range – on the border between Kyrgyzstan and China – with a range of challenging weather conditions and unknown terrain. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - September 16, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: news_text Tags: Press releases Source Type: news
Kyrgyz teen dies from bubonic plague after eating marmot
160 quarantined after 15-year-old from Kyrgyzstan falls ill after eating marmot meat (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - August 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Boy dies of plague in Kyrgyzstan
A young herder dies of bubonic plague in Kyrgyzstan - the first such case in the country for 30 years, the authorities say. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - August 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Intrepid climbers face steep challenge for world first
Reaching 5,318 metres tall, the remote and unknown mountains in Kyrgystan would be a daunting prospect to many climbers. But six intrepid mountaineers are confident that they can conquer the steep challenge and, in doing so, achieve a world first. The team, which is made up of past and present University of Bristol students, is leaving for the Djangart mountain range – on the border between Kyrgyzstan and China - on Wednesday. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - July 24, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: news_text Tags: Press releases Source Type: news
Kyrgyzstan’s Talas Region Reduces Maternal Mortality to Zero - 04 April 2013
For the first time since independence in 1991, one of Kyrgyzstan’s regions succeeded in reducing maternal mortality to zero: in the north-western Talas region, not a single woman died during 2012 while being pregnant or as a result of giving birth. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - April 28, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
[Slideshow] Surviving Two Years of Treatment for Drug-Resistant TB in Kyrgyzstan
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Kyrgyzstan 2013 © Vincent Tremeau
Some 9.4 million people worldwide are reported to be newly infected with tuberculosis (TB) every year. Kyrgyzstan is among the 27 countries with the highest burdens of multidrug-resistant (MDR-TB), according to the World Health Organization. #
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Kyrgyzstan 2013 © Vincent Tremeau
Aziz, 38, was diagnosed with MDR-TB two years ago. He was so thin the nurses had to give him intramuscular injections in his arms and legs instead of the gluteal muscles of the buttocks. Weight loss is a common symptom of TB. #
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Source: MSF Multimedia - March 22, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
