First Laos bacteraemia study highlights need for local knowledge
... Laos has a population of 5.2 million, the majority of whom are rural rice farmers, and life expectancy in the country is 54 years. Prior to the study, which was funded by the UK's Wellcome Trust, little was known about the causes and distribution of bacterial...NEW YORK (APRIL 20, 2006) Frogs and lots of them are being discovered in the Southeast Asia nation of Lao PDR, according to the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society, which says that six new frog species have been found by scientists over a two-year period.... Working in conjunction with the WCS Laos Program, scientists describe the latest three species in the recent issue of Copeia, th...The Green Revolution has finally arrived in Laos, almost 20 years after benefiting the rest of Asia. It's provided the tiny nation one of Asia's poorest with the food security foundation it needs for future economic development....... But the spark for this revolution came from half a world away, from the government of another small, mountainous land-locked country Switzerland....... It was th...