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A. africanus is closely related to Lucy and her kin (Australopithecus afarensis), the gracile hominids found in the East African Rift Valley at Hadar, at Laetoli in Tanzania and elsewhere.
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Kipketer, 26, whose odyssey from a farm in the Great Rift Valley to an apartment in Copenhagen has been as challenging as any race, broke track's oldest world record in an Olympic event at the Weltklasse meet in Zurich on Aug. 13, proving that whatever his country, he belongs among his sport's alltime best.
«In parts of Africa where there are Rift valley fever outbreaks, miscarriages in humans have until now never been linked to this particular viral infection,» says Magnus Evander, professor of Virology at Umeå University and co-author of the study.
Using assays developed at USAMRIID that detect the presence of IgM, an early protein produced by the body to ward off infection, the research team found evidence of dengue fever, West Nile, yellow fever, Rift Valley fever, chikungunya, Ebola, and Marburg viruses in the samples collected between 2006 and 2008.
Researchers have long wondered if other upright walking species shared the Rift Valley of Africa with Lucy, particularly after they discovered that several types of hominins were alive at the same time after A. afarensis disappeared 3 million years ago.
North Americans are currently at risk from numerous vector - borne diseases, including Lyme, 69,70,71,72,84 dengue fever, 73,74,75,76,77,78 West Nile virus, 79,80 Rocky Mountain spotted fever, 81 plague, and tularemia.198 Vector - borne pathogens not currently found in the United States, such as chikungunya, Chagas disease, and Rift Valley fever viruses, are also threats.
Curcumin, the active ingredient found in turmeric, stopped the potentially deadly Rift Valley Fever virus from multiplying in infected cells, say researchers at George Masion University.
Table of Contents 1 Lighting Out 2 The Mother of the World 3 Up and Down the Nile 4 The Dervishes of Omdurman 5 The Osama Road to Nubia 6 The Djibouti Line to Harar 7 The Longest Road in Africa 8 Figawi Safari on the Bandit Road 9 Rift Valley Days 10 Old Friends in Bat Valley 11 The MV Umoja Across Lake Victoria 12 The Bush Train to Dar es Salaam 13 The Kilimanjaro Express to Mbeya 14 Through the Outposts of the Plateau 15 The Back Road to Soche Hill School 16 River Safari to the Coast 17 Invading Drummond's Farm 18 The Bush Border Bus to South Africa 19 The Hominids of Johannesburg 20 The Wild Things at Mala Mala 21 Faith, Hope, and Charity on the Limpopo Line 22 The Trans - Karoo Express to Cape Town 23 Blue Train Blues
Tucked away at the foot of the scenic Oloololo escarpment (the rim of the Great Rift Valley) in Kenya's iconic Masai Mara National Reserve, is the classic and elegant & Beyond Bateleur Camp.
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His Project for a Rift Valley Crossing (2015 — 16) is included in «Darbyshire, Gander, Pica, Starling» at Heni Project Space, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, until 9 April.
A fine example of this can be found in Janet Biggs's three channel installation, Afar, currently on show at New York's Cristin Tierney gallery, which offers viewers a brief visual sojourn to East Africa's Great Rift Valley — «the most unlivable place on earth.»
As reported in the November 11, 2017, TWTW, at least in part, Antarctic ice melt appears to be resulting from geothermal activity below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, with over 130 geothermal hot spots identified near a rift valley below the surface.
German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), «African Rift Geothermal Facility (ARGeo),» at www.bgr.de/geotherm/projects/argeo.html, viewed 22 April 2009; U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), «Hot Prospect — Geothermal Electricity Set for Rift Valley Lift - Off in 2009,» press release (Nairobi: 9 December 2008); Bertani, op.
The long body of Lake Turkana drops down along the Rift Valley from the Ethiopian border, extending 249 kilometers from north to south and 44 km at its widest point with a depth of 30 meters.