Sentences with phrase «rift valley»

In Sudan, outbreak of Rift Valley fever is a large and recurring health problem.

Mosquitoes — and the viruses that they carry — are pushing up the incidence of malaria globally and causing periodic explosive outbreaks of Rift Valley fever, which first brings on flulike symptoms but can turn into a severe hemorrhagic fever akin to Ebola.

Ntchisi Forest Lodge sits on the escarpment of the East African Rift Valley in some of Malawi's last remaining indigenous rainforest in an isolated spot near Lilongwe, Malawi's capital.

For example precession has been linked to the rise and fall of the African rift valley lakes and so may have even influenced the evolution of our ancestors.

A study of 130 pregnant Sudanese women with fever showed that the risk of miscarriage was seven times greater if the woman was infected with Rift Valley fever virus.

Historically, this required a water temperature of 150 degrees Celsius (302 degrees Fahrenheit) or more, which is found in abundance in countries along the Pacific Ring of Fire — including Chile, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States — as well as in Africa's Great Rift Valley region.

Medgene laboratory manager Jessica Zweibahmer and research associate Ashley Peterson hold lambs born to ewes in an experimental group vaccinated for Rift Valley Fever.

«With these results, we can add miscarriage to the list of known complications from Rift Valley fever.

Continue to our safari lodge, located outside Lake Manyara National Park and featuring unobstructed views of the stunning Rift Valley escarpment.

A great rift valley formed as the ancient supercontinent Gondwana broke up and Australia separated from Antarctica.

27/08/01; Rift Valley Province; 10,700 ha; 00 ° 15»N 036 ° 05 «E. National Reserve.

In a study published today in Nature, the researchers propose that these cracks eventually grew into rift valleys, where magma from the moon's mantle welled up and pushed apart blocks of crust.

«Mosquito - borne Rift Valley fever virus causes miscarriage.»

Traversing the Northern circuit normally include exploring the Spectacular Serengeti, Lake Manyara National Park, Tarangire National Park, the Ngorongoro crater (considered as the eight natural wonder of the World) which is the only existing unbroken caldera in the world and the stunning rift Valley escarpment.

Map of the Northern Tanzanian Divergence Zone depicts the East African Rift System (EARS), containing Lake Natron (north), diverging around the Ngorongoro Volcanic Highland massif and splitting into two separate rift valleys (Lake Eyasi on west) and Lake Manyara (on east).

The features are similar to rift valleys on Earth — regions where the crust is cooling, contracting, and ripping apart.

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.

May 14, 2018 • A deep, wide gash has slashed across the Great Rift Valley floor in a geologically hot part of Kenya.

Thirteen of the countries identified in the GEA report are in East Africa, with many of these located along the tectonically and volcanically active Great Rift Valley stretching from Eritrea in the north to Mozambique in the south.

Advised on the initial acquisition of a majority stake in the national rail operator of Kenya and Uganda, Rift Valley Railways.

Towards the Afar region, however, the entire rift valley floor is covered with volcanic rocks.

Perth - based minerals explorer Rift Valley Resources has signed a deal to wholly acquire the Mtemi Resources Group of Companies after completing a $ 4 million capital raising.

Just as paleontologists hunt for fossils in isolated caves and dry rift valleys, cosmologists have identified relatively untarnished parts of the universe where atomic nuclei have remained largely undisturbed since the earliest times.

The company's initial vaccine formulation targets Rift Valley Fever, found in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

How the giant feature was formed, itself one small stretch of the 4000 - kilometer - long Valles Marineris rift valley, remains a mystery.

«Because Rift Valley fever is caused by a mosquito - borne virus, there is a potential risk of global spread, which has been the case with the zika virus.

Archaeologists working in the Kenyan Rift Valley have discovered the oldest known stone tools in the world.

It lived in what is now the central Afar region of the East African Rift Valley around 3.3 million years ago, only 35 kilometres north of known Australopithecus afarensis sites.

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.

If Rift Valley fever comes to the United States, it will most likely get here the way most scientists think West Nile did — via a mosquito on an airplane.

Another fresh set of fossils from the northern Rift Valley, in Ethiopia, has only added to the confusion.

The topography of East Africa completely changed: from a homogeneous flat region covered in moist forest, to a mountainous landscape with plateaus and deep rift valleys, where vegetation varied from cloud forest to desert scrub.

Now, experts have discovered one of the world's largest helium fields in the Tanzanian Rift Valley — this time, on purpose.

The development of the East African Rift valley fragmented the landscape and formed a large number of separate lake basins.

Authorities are concerned about the spread of both waterborne diseases, such as cholera, and mosquito - borne ones, particularly Rift Valley Fever, which tends to occur in years with unusually heavy rainfall.

The Hadar project is the longest running paleoanthropology field program in the Ethiopian rift valley, now spanning more than 38 years.

In the East African system, a series of aligned rift valleys separated from each other by large bounding faults can be clearly seen from space.

Other interesting geologic features include (lower left) Valles Marineris, an immense rift valley the length of the continental United States.

Paul Salopek's starting point was Herto Bouri, in Ethiopia's heat - drenched Rift Valley, where fossils of three of the world's suspected oldest human beings have been found.

Its location in the Great Rift Valley conjures up of huge flocks of flamingos and elephants with a backdrop of Mount Kilimanjaro, and they are all very real.

Situated at Lake Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley Oserian Game Corridor.