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Monday, October 8, 2012
Romney: US should be more assertive on world stage
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney steps off his campaign plane in Weyers Cave, Va., Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney steps off his campaign plane in Weyers Cave, Va., Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, waves towards a camera platform after exiting his MD-83 campaign plane at the Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport Sunday evening Oct. 7, 2012 in Weyers Cave, Va. Romney completed a three day campaign swing through Florida and will deliver a foreign policy address at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington Monday. (AP Photo/Daily News-Record, Michael Reilly)
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, waves as he arrives with his wife Ann at a campaign rally, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, in Port St. Lucie, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is proposing the U.S. take a more assertive role in Syria, put conditions on aid to Egypt and tighten sanctions on Iran as he looks to use a planned foreign policy address to paint President Barack Obama as a weak leader who has limited America's influence on global affairs.
Declaring that "it's time to change course in the Middle East" and accusing Obama of "passivity," Romney plans to call Monday for the U.S. to work with other countries to arm rebels in Syria with weapons that can defeat the "tanks, helicopters and fighter jets" that make up President Bashar Assad's army.
Romney also plans to call for tougher sanctions on Iran than those already in place, and plans to say he will condition aid to Egypt on continued support for its peace treaty with neighboring Israel. He will emphasize his commitment to a two-state solution for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, a process he dismissed during a secretly videotaped fundraiser in May.
Romney plans to make the comments at a major foreign policy speech at Virginia Military Institute. His campaign released excerpts of his prepared speech in advance. Aides previewing the speech in a conference call with reporters emphasized that the Republican, who took a hawkish tone throughout the GOP primary, would outline a "mainstream" foreign policy vision.
"Hope is not a strategy. We cannot support our friends and defeat our enemies in the Middle East when our words are not backed up by deeds," Romney plans to say in the address, adding that the U.S. should use its influence "wisely, with solemnity and without false pride, but also firmly and actively."
Romney's attempt to outline his approach as commander in chief comes amid turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa. Iran is believed to be pursuing a nuclear weapon, Syria is locked in a civil war, peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are moribund, and anti-American protests have erupted in several countries. Attackers linked to al-Qaida killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, last month, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.
The Republican has given several foreign policy speeches throughout the campaign, including one in Reno, Nev., ahead of a weeklong trip abroad in the summer. That trip was fraught, with Romney offending his British hosts by questioning their security preparations for the Olympic Games and raising hackles among Palestinians who charged him with racism after he said culture was part of the reason Israelis were more economically successful than the neighboring Palestinians.
In the fall, Romney faced criticism for his hurried and harsh reaction to news of protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the near-simultaneous attacks in Libya. Before the administration knew of Stevens' death, Romney criticized Obama for sympathizing with the attackers. In the aftermath, top Republicans ? including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the 2008 presidential nominee ? urged Romney to give a speech laying out his vision for U.S. foreign policy.
The Obama campaign dismissed Romney's planned Monday address as a rehashed attempt to fix past blunders.
"We are not going to be lectured by someone who's been an unmitigated disaster on foreign policy every time he sticks his toe in the foreign policy waters," campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. The campaign prepared a TV ad calling Romney "reckless" and "amateurish" on foreign policy questions. Obama's aides also insisted Romney's speech included few specifics that were markedly different from the president's own record.
While Obama has held an edge in polls on handling foreign policy issues, Republican aides say the Benghazi attack ? and ensuing questions about possible intelligence failures and lax security at the Libya consulate ? has given Romney a new opportunity to criticize the president.
Now, following a strong debate performance, Romney will give the speech at the alma mater of former Secretary of State George Marshall, the architect of the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe in the wake of World War II. In the conference call previewing the speech, aides pointed to that connection to illustrate Romney's vision of leadership and engagement on the world stage. The advisers cast Romney as part of a long tradition of statesmen beginning with former President Harry Truman; adviser Rich Williamson said Romney would offer a "bipartisan" approach while aide Eliot Cohen referred to Romney as "very much in the mainstream of foreign policy."
Romney's outline of an approach to Syria comes at a critical time in part because the violence there has spilled over their border with Turkey. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Saturday the conflict between those neighboring countries could embroil the broader region.
Romney aides said the candidate would not call for direct U.S. aid to arm the Syrian rebels, but said he would support providing them with enough force to force Assad from power. In the speech, Romney plans to emphasize Iran's ties to the Syrian government and insist the U.S., through allies, should "support the many Syrians who would deliver that defeat to Iran rather than sitting on the sidelines." That would allow the U.S. to "develop influence with those forces in Syria that will one day lead a country that sits at the heart of the Middle East."
Obama's administration still seeks a peaceful political transition, even though the president acknowledged in August that the likelihood of a soft landing for Syria's civil war "seems pretty distant."
Obama called on Assad to step down more than a year ago and has sought consensus at the United Nations on a diplomatic power-transfer plan, but has been stymied repeatedly by Russia and China. Obama has stepped up U.S. humanitarian aid and nonlethal assistance, now at a combined $175 million, to the political opposition.
But he has opposed directly providing weapons to the rebels or using U.S. air power to prevent Syrian jets from flying.
The administration says U.S. arms assistance would further militarize Syria and make it even harder to stabilize the country after Assad's downfall, which it insists is inevitable. And it says it still doesn't know the different fighting groups well enough to provide them guns, considering the small but growing influence of Islamist extremists among their ranks.
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Associated Press writer Steve Peoples in Lexington, Va., White House Correspondent Ben Feller and writer Bradley Klapper in Washington contributed to this report.
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Friday, October 5, 2012
New Nexus smartphone due, but rumors are vague, contradictory
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Nearly a year has passed since Samsung and Google unveiled the Galaxy Nexus (along with Android Ice Cream Sandwich), so it's natural to?expect a shiny new Nexus-branded smartphone to be announced?this month. But here's the problem: The rumor mill is churning out so many contradicting details that we're ready to cry.
There's no official word about this device, of course,?so all we're working with right now is this ridiculous pile of rumors, leaks and?speculation.?
We don't even know which hardware maker might be behind the next Nexus smartphone.?Many assume that Samsung will make the device, but the folks at Android and Me say that their sources claim LG is on board for this one while?DroidLife's writers heard whispers about an HTC version.
Potential???though vaguely sourced???leaks have suggested that the next Nexus device may be codenamed GT-I9260 and will be sold as either the Galaxy Nexus Plus,?the Galaxy?Nexus 2 or the Nexus 5. The first two names suggest that it is likely to be made by Samsung, which owns the Galaxy name. The "Nexus 5" name doesn't suggest any manufacturer in particular ? Asus makes the Nexus 7 tablet for Google ? but it does intimate that the next Nexus could have a 5-inch screen.?
There have been enough minor leaks???mainly camera details and questionable?spec sheets?? related to the next Nexus device to make even the head of someone accustomed to sifting through Apple rumors spin, especially since every other leak contradicts a prior one.
Perhaps an older report in the Wall Street Journal, suggesting that there will be multiple new Nexus smartphones this year, would explain some of this confusion.
This different than last year, when the Galaxy Nexus was announced. By the time October came around, the cat was mostly?out of the bag?? right down to detailed spec sheets. The only confusion was over the name: Everybody thought it would be called the "Nexus Prime."?
Want more tech news?or interesting?links? You'll get plenty of both if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on?Twitter, subscribing to her?Facebook?posts,?or circling her?on?Google+.
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Juvenile Detainees Entitled to Time Outdoors, But Many Not - KQED
by Trey Bundy, The Bay Citizen
Boys and girls confined in San Francisco?s juvenile hall might rather be elsewhere, but most aren?t in a hurry to go outside.
That is according to an anonymous survey of detainees at the city?s Juvenile Justice Center, where almost two-thirds of the young offenders said they don?t like outdoor recreation.
A large outdoor recreation facility, built at the city?s Juvenile Justice Center in 2006 as part of a $47 million renovation, has sat largely unused for the past five years in San Francisco, February 21, 2012 (Jason Henry/The Bay Citizen)
Of the survey?s 53 respondents, only 10 said they participated in outdoor exercise every day. When they did participate, nearly a third reported spending less than an hour outside.
The survey comes after months of debate between the San Francisco Youth Commission ? which conducted the poll ? and the Department of Juvenile Probation over whether detainees get enough fresh air, sunlight and exercise to satisfy state regulations. By law, detainees are entitled to one hour of outdoor ?large-muscle? exercise each day.
?It?s pretty clear that young people are not getting their hour a day outdoors,? said commission director Mario Yedidia after reviewing the survey results. ?The culture of the institution seems like it?s not really encouraging of outdoor exercise.
Despite the survey?s findings, Chief of Juvenile Probation William Siffermann has insisted for months that the hall is in compliance with all state regulations. ?Some kids don?t want to go outside,? he said at one point, ?and I can?t force them out there.?
All but one of the detainees surveyed said they liked visiting the indoor gym, but almost half said they used it fewer than four days a week. Basketball was the most popular activity, and several kids used their questionnaires to request that hoops be installed on the small concrete courtyards adjacent to their units.
?We need a basketball hoop, please,? wrote one detainee.
Another complained: ?We only play basketball. We need more sports.?
The Youth Commission, a panel of 17 San Franciscans ages 12 to 23 appointed by the mayor, makes policy recommendations to city leaders and began pushing for more outdoor recreation at the hall last year.
In February, the commission drafted a resolution calling for detainees to have regular access to a large outdoor space at the hall that had sat unused since it was built in 2006 as part of a $47 million renovation. Siffermann said then that security concerns and staff shortages prevented safe usage of most areas of the large yard.
Subsequent inquiries by the commission raised questions about the hall?s compliance with state regulations. Although a 2010 state inspection found no compliance issues at the facility, the commission and Board of Supervisors asked Siffermann to provide documentation showing how often individual detainees go outside.
Until now, staff at the hall has not recorded that information, but Siffermann told The Bay Citizen this week that he will begin reporting those numbers to the Youth Commission on a quarterly basis.
Youth commissioners said that the lack of interest in outdoor recreation indicated in the new survey results took them by surprise.
?The results were not what we were expecting, but they speak to the gravity of the situation,? said Paul Monge-Rodriguez, a 23-year-old youth commissioner. ?Kids at this age should want nothing more than to go outside and engage with their peers.?
The results demonstrated the hall?s need for more recreational programs, he added.
?There?s a limited number of recreational activities to fulfill the state?s large-muscle exercise requirements,? he said. ?The survey shows there?s a lot of basketball, but it?s like being offered the same one meal every day, and people get sick of the lack of variety and lose interest.?
Angel Carrion, who was locked up for two years at the hall before joining the Youth Commission, said the lack of outdoor activity shows that the institutional setting has taken a mental toll on youth in the hall.
All but one of the detainees surveyed said they liked visiting the indoor gym, but almost half said they used it fewer than four days a week. Basketball was the most popular activity, and several kids used their questionnaires to request that hoops be installed on the small concrete courtyards adjacent to their units.
?We need a basketball hoop, please,? wrote one detainee.
Another complained: ?We only play basketball. We need more sports.?
The Youth Commission, a panel of 17 San Franciscans ages 12 to 23 appointed by the mayor, makes policy recommendations to city leaders and began pushing for more outdoor recreation at the hall last year.
In February, the commission drafted a resolution calling for detainees to have regular access to a large outdoor space at the hall that had sat unused since it was built in 2006 as part of a $47 million renovation. Siffermann said then that security concerns and staff shortages prevented safe usage of most areas of the large yard.
Subsequent inquiries by the commission raised questions about the hall?s compliance with state regulations. Although a 2010 state inspection found no compliance issues at the facility, the commission and Board of Supervisors asked Siffermann to provide documentation showing how often individual detainees go outside.
Until now, staff at the hall has not recorded that information, but Siffermann told The Bay Citizen this week that he will begin reporting those numbers to the Youth Commission on a quarterly basis.
Youth commissioners said that the lack of interest in outdoor recreation indicated in the new survey results took them by surprise.
?The results were not what we were expecting, but they speak to the gravity of the situation,? said Paul Monge-Rodriguez, a 23-year-old youth commissioner. ?Kids at this age should want nothing more than to go outside and engage with their peers.?
The results demonstrated the hall?s need for more recreational programs, he added.
?There?s a limited number of recreational activities to fulfill the state?s large-muscle exercise requirements,? he said. ?The survey shows there?s a lot of basketball, but it?s like being offered the same one meal every day, and people get sick of the lack of variety and lose interest.?
Angel Carrion, who was locked up for two years at the hall before joining the Youth Commission, said the lack of outdoor activity shows that the institutional setting has taken a mental toll on youth in the hall.
This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
Video: Sideshow: Debates - you're only a day away
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Safety concerns, labor issues, bankruptcy take toll on American Airlines
11 hrs.
When it comes to describing the state of American Airlines?these days, travelers have lots of aviation-themed metaphors to choose from --?experiencing severe turbulence; in the midst of a bumpy ride; trouble in the?skies.
But the bottom line is American is a carrier with mounting?difficulties, some that were in place well before the recent scheduling?problems and tensions with pilots.
?In terms of the large U.S. airlines, this is the one with?the highest profile problems right now,? said Robert W. Mann Jr., an airline industry analyst.
?They?ve got a serious public relations bow wave to try to?keep ahead of.?
For travelers, the troubling headlines about American?Airlines -- the?nation's third-biggest carrier -- just keep coming.
Rows of seats have come loose on planes in recent days,?which the airline is investigating. Overnight, a group of engineers, tech crew chiefs and inspectors evaluated 36 Boeing 757s and plan to look at another 11. They found the root cause is a saddle clamp improperly installed on the foot of the row leg, said Andrea Huguely, a spokeswoman for the airline. The clamps were used on 47 of American's 102 Boeing 757 airplanes.
"This issue does not seem to be tied to any one maintenance facility or one working group," Huguely said.
"American regrets the inconvenience that this maintenance issue may have caused customers on affected flights. Safety is -- and always will be -- American's top concern."
Mann called the seat track issues ?hard to?believe.??
Listen to the actual dispatch recordings from American Airlines Flight 443 (Audio courtesy:?LiveATC.net):
Then, there?s the sudden rise in flight delays and?cancellations that began last month after American imposed new cost-cutting?terms on its pilots. The carrier has blamed the scheduling problems on a surge?of maintenance requests filed by crews and by an uptick in pilots calling in?sick. The pilots' union says there is no organized sickout or work slowdown.
Fliers who?ve encountered snags on American are venting on?social media and in higher-profile venues.
?You, American Airlines, should no longer be flying across?the Atlantic,? wrote author Gary Shteyngart in an opinion published in The New?York Times over the weekend about a recent flight from Paris to New York.
?The aircraft was indeed an interesting one. One of the?overhead baggage compartments was held together with masking tape. Halfway?across the Atlantic you decided to turn Flight 121 back because your altimeter?wasn?t working.?
The dislodged rows of seats may be particularly disturbing?to fliers, creating a perception?--?whether deserved or not?--?that American?s planes?may not be in the best shape, industry observers said.
?Only a tiny percentage of flights have been canceled or?delayed, even though the numbers are much higher than normal. ?But poor?aircraft maintenance is less easily forgiven than flight irregularities,? said?George Hobica, founder of Airfarewatchdog.com.
?Air travel is still the safest way to get from one place to?another, but perceptions can turn quickly if these problems persist.?
Fliers focusing on American?s recent problems may forget?that the airline is also trying to restructure after filing for bankruptcy last?November and facing a record fine from the government for safety and?maintenance violations. In August, the Federal Aviation Administration?announced it could seek up $162 million from American?s parent company, AMR.
The carrier is also dealing with a maturing fleet of planes?whose average age is almost 15 years.
Older airplanes are less fuel efficient and, as energy costs?have risen to the point where they are any airline?s biggest expense, they just?make American?s cost problems more acute, Mann said.
Last year, the airline placed what it called the largest?aircraft order in aviation history, which will reduce its average fleet age to?9.5 years by 2017.
Still, improvements five years from now likely have little?meaning for passengers who are weighing their present air travel options.
?For American Airlines, time is of the essence,? said Rick?Seaney, CEO of FareCompare.com. ?You?re only as good as your last flight on?airlines -- people still have choice, even after a lot of these mergers.?
But while the problems are scaring some travelers, others will?continue with flights already booked, Hobica said. Since most people still buy?based on price alone, it wouldn?t be surprising to see American have a sale or?offer bonus frequent flyer miles to entice travelers, he added.
?So far this is survivable. But when you add bankruptcy,?labor unrest, delays, and now safety concerns, of course this is going to?affect some passengers,? Hobica said.
Chloroquine makes comeback to combat malaria
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Malaria-drug monitoring over the past 30 years has shown that malaria parasites develop resistance to medicine, and the first signs of resistance to the newest drugs have just been observed. At the same time, resistance monitoring at the University of Copenhagen shows that the previously efficacious drug chloroquine is once again beginning to work against malaria. In time that will ensure cheaper treatment for the world's poor.
Scientists and healthcare personnel the world over fear that the malaria parasite will develop resistance to the current frontline treatment against malaria, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies (ACTs). Therefore, it is especially good news that resistance monitoring at the University of Copenhagen shows that in several African countries, malaria parasites are succumbing to the formerly used drug chloroquine. The results have just been published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
"70% of the malaria parasites we found in Senegal are reacting once again to chloroquine. This is a trend we have also seen in Tanzania and Mozambique, and which other researchers have shown in Malawi. Our choice of drugs against malaria is limited and related, so when the malaria parasite once again reacts to a substance, it influences several treatment methods," explains Michael Alifrangis, associate professor at the Center for Medical Parasitology at the University of Copenhagen. He and Magatte Ndiaye, PhD student at Universit Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal, are keeping an eye on the malaria parasite's sensitivity to drugs by analyzing the parasites' DNA.
Cheaper treatment for the poor in Africa
If healthcare personnel in developing countries can begin using chloroquine again, it will open up some promising perspectives. It will be possible to protect the currently used medicine and delay the reappearance of resistance, and it will also give a large group of patients access to cheaper treatment.
"Chloroquine costs only 25 US cents for a four-day cure, while the current and corresponding ACTs cost two dollars. Chloroquine was a fantastic malaria drug that lasted for 50 years. However, it was misused for malaria prevention and ordinary fever, and even mixed with cooking salt, so it can come as no surprise that the malaria parasite became resistant to the active ingredient," explains Professor Ib Bygbjerg, M.D. He also points out that reuse will require correct drug use and the training of healthcare personnel to make more accurate diagnoses.
Correct use of drugs paralyzes the development of resistance
According to Professor Ib Bygbjerg, three factors determine the extent to which a malaria drug will work: 1) the size of the dose, 2) how sensitive the parasite is to the drug, and 3) the extent to which the patient has developed a natural immunity to malaria.
"In the near future, chloroquine and other malaria drugs not currently on the market will presumably be able to be used again, if we use them correctly. This means that the drug must be given in combination with other medicine and only to patients who have already developed a certain immunity to malaria and are therefore not at high risk. At the same time, we must reserve ACTs for the most exposed non-immune groups such as children. Chloroquine is one of the few drugs that can be given to pregnant women at the beginning of their pregnancy," points out Ib Bygbjerg, adding that the patient can be treated with a high dose for a short period, another benefit.
In order to maintain the positive development with chloroquine, it is therefore also important that with the exception of pregnant women travellers to malaria areas refrain from taking the drug. Otherwise the parasites will quickly develop resistance once again.
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Contact
Associate Professor Michael Alifrangis
E-mail: micali@sund.ku.dk
Tel. + 45 2345 1804
Professor Ib Bygbjerg, M.D.
E-mail: iby@sund.ku.dk
Tel. + 45 41 58 94 97
Lasse Jensen, Communications Officer
E-mail: lassej@sund.ku.dk
Tel.: +45 21 84 74 91
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Public release date: 3-Oct-2012[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Michael Alifrangis
micali@sund.ku.dk
45-23-45-18-04
University of Copenhagen
Malaria-drug monitoring over the past 30 years has shown that malaria parasites develop resistance to medicine, and the first signs of resistance to the newest drugs have just been observed. At the same time, resistance monitoring at the University of Copenhagen shows that the previously efficacious drug chloroquine is once again beginning to work against malaria. In time that will ensure cheaper treatment for the world's poor.
Scientists and healthcare personnel the world over fear that the malaria parasite will develop resistance to the current frontline treatment against malaria, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies (ACTs). Therefore, it is especially good news that resistance monitoring at the University of Copenhagen shows that in several African countries, malaria parasites are succumbing to the formerly used drug chloroquine. The results have just been published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
"70% of the malaria parasites we found in Senegal are reacting once again to chloroquine. This is a trend we have also seen in Tanzania and Mozambique, and which other researchers have shown in Malawi. Our choice of drugs against malaria is limited and related, so when the malaria parasite once again reacts to a substance, it influences several treatment methods," explains Michael Alifrangis, associate professor at the Center for Medical Parasitology at the University of Copenhagen. He and Magatte Ndiaye, PhD student at Universit Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal, are keeping an eye on the malaria parasite's sensitivity to drugs by analyzing the parasites' DNA.
Cheaper treatment for the poor in Africa
If healthcare personnel in developing countries can begin using chloroquine again, it will open up some promising perspectives. It will be possible to protect the currently used medicine and delay the reappearance of resistance, and it will also give a large group of patients access to cheaper treatment.
"Chloroquine costs only 25 US cents for a four-day cure, while the current and corresponding ACTs cost two dollars. Chloroquine was a fantastic malaria drug that lasted for 50 years. However, it was misused for malaria prevention and ordinary fever, and even mixed with cooking salt, so it can come as no surprise that the malaria parasite became resistant to the active ingredient," explains Professor Ib Bygbjerg, M.D. He also points out that reuse will require correct drug use and the training of healthcare personnel to make more accurate diagnoses.
Correct use of drugs paralyzes the development of resistance
According to Professor Ib Bygbjerg, three factors determine the extent to which a malaria drug will work: 1) the size of the dose, 2) how sensitive the parasite is to the drug, and 3) the extent to which the patient has developed a natural immunity to malaria.
"In the near future, chloroquine and other malaria drugs not currently on the market will presumably be able to be used again, if we use them correctly. This means that the drug must be given in combination with other medicine and only to patients who have already developed a certain immunity to malaria and are therefore not at high risk. At the same time, we must reserve ACTs for the most exposed non-immune groups such as children. Chloroquine is one of the few drugs that can be given to pregnant women at the beginning of their pregnancy," points out Ib Bygbjerg, adding that the patient can be treated with a high dose for a short period, another benefit.
In order to maintain the positive development with chloroquine, it is therefore also important that with the exception of pregnant women travellers to malaria areas refrain from taking the drug. Otherwise the parasites will quickly develop resistance once again.
###
Contact
Associate Professor Michael Alifrangis
E-mail: micali@sund.ku.dk
Tel. + 45 2345 1804
Professor Ib Bygbjerg, M.D.
E-mail: iby@sund.ku.dk
Tel. + 45 41 58 94 97
Lasse Jensen, Communications Officer
E-mail: lassej@sund.ku.dk
Tel.: +45 21 84 74 91
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