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If you tolerate this... - the Greenpeace webloghttp://weblog.greenpeace.org [If you tolerate this... - the Greenpeace weblog] Lamno town itself sits about 5km up the river from where we currently are and has missed bearing the brunt of the Tsunami due to its slightly higher elevation, and this is where MSF has set up a hospital to cater for people in the district who have been badly affected, they are also trying to run mobile clinics. Their work in the refugee camps concentrates on water sanitation (no one else is doing this around here), building toilets and showers and they have responsibility for much of the vaccination (measles) and anti malarial work and general medical work that needs to be done here.

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Weblog.greenpeace.orghttp://weblog.greenpeace.org [Weblog.greenpeace.org] If you tolerate this... - the Greenpeace weblog: January 2005 Archives: The thinking was that we had done as much as we can, but when we analyse the situation in places like Teunom where good quantities of food still have not made it in, it almost seems silly to leave just yet. ACF are having problems distributing and there's still the question of how the gap we create when we leave will be filled.

[Lesjones.com] Les Jones - Archive: I also bought her a bottle of 81 milligram (low-dose) aspirin tablets, which NINDS recommends for patients who are at risk of stroke. Low daily doses of aspirin are good for the heart, and new research suggests that aspirin can reduce the risk of colon polyps and various forms of cancer, including lung cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, and colo-rectal cancer.

Dissectleft.blogspot.comhttp://dissectleft.blogspot.com [Dissectleft.blogspot.com] Dissecting Leftism: So the alternative is to persuade the parents that vaccination is a good thing to do -- and putting needless scares into parents about vaccination seems to me in the circumstances to verge on the criminal. As the "Spiked" article says: "One speculative paper, now utterly discredited, has had the effect of reducing the uptake of MMR far below that required to maintain community resistance to measles, mumps and rubella." For the record, my own son has had every vaccination going.

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