S.T. Claire County, Mitch. – Three new cases of more contagious COVID-19 B117 variant Has been identified in St. Clair County. St. Clair County health officials said their county’s first case of B117 was identified in February. Now, three additional cases have been confirmed. The cases were found in a …
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The natural world has undergone an almost unimaginable regime change, reflecting the vast and growing dominance of humanity on our planet’s most important resource: freshwater. Researchers say this is the first global survey of human effects on the water cycle. Scientists have used NASA’s satellite measurements to remotely measure the …
Read More »A rare blood type variant helps prevent malaria. Now we finally know how
A rare blood type, found only in parts of East Africa, can help the body fight malaria even better than our best vaccines. Now, scientists think they’ve figured out how this is possible – and that’s not a defense we’ve considered before. Malaria is caused by five species of mosquito-borne …
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