So far there have been no fatal victims of atypical pneumonia in Latin America, but the first economic impacts of the disease are being felt in the region. Chilean copper prices have fallen and Brazilian chicken exports have declined. And health experts say the public still lacks awareness about severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
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Iraqi children suffer an "innate" fear, say experts. Now the psychological traumas caused by the second Gulf War are leaving them with even more scars, and a potentially long road to recovery.
The deciphering of 200 of the 554 genes considered "environmentally sensitive" has opened the door to greater understanding of our relationship with our surroundings and the human organism's reactions to specific problems, such as pollution.
Every living species represents a library-full of knowledge, and the extinction of a type of bird, for example, means the disappearance of biological knowledge that will never be recovered.
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