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Malaysia help fight Ebola, donates medical gloves Posted: 15 Sep 2014 07:25 PM PDT PUTRAJAYA: (Bernama) Malaysia is sending 20.9 million pairs of medical gloves to five African nations, which have been badly hit by the deadly Ebola virus. The Prime Minister's Office, in a statement yesterday, said Malaysia would be shipping off 11 container-loads from Port Klang, each holding 1.9 million pairs of medical rubber gloves, to help fight the disease that had claimed so many lives. Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea will each receive three containers while Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo will receive one each, it said. Najib (L) in the handing over ceremony to representatives of Ebola-hit countries in Putrajaya on Sept 15, 2014. Among those present to receive the contributions are (from right) Guinea High Commissioner Dr Alpha Diallo, Republic of Congo Ambassador Francios Balumuene and Negeria's High Commissioner Bello Shehu Ringim. BERNAMA Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak handed over the medical supplies to Nigeria's High Commissioner Bello Sheuhu Ringim, Republic of Congo Ambassador Francios Balumuene and Guinea High Commissioner Dr Aloha Diallo. Also present at the ceremony were Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin and Advisor in the Prime Minister's Department Tan Sri Dr Jamaluddin Jarjis. Balumuene thanked Malaysia for the humanitarian gesture in donating medical gloves."This gestures goes a long way in helping the affected countries," he said. "Malaysia is making this vital contribution to help fight against this contagious haemorrhagic fever called Ebola. We hope this contribution will help prevent the spread of this deadly disease," said Najib, adding he is saddened that 4,453 people had suffered from the Ebola virus, including 2,263 deaths. A total of 13 glove-making companies have contributed to this cause, including the world's biggest Top Glove Corp Bhd. These companies sourced natural rubber latex from four plantation giants; namely IOI Corp Bhd, Sime Darby Bhd, Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd and Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd. Top Glove Corp chairman Tan Sri Lim Wee Chai said the RM1.8 million worth of much needed medical gloves will reach the respective health ministries of the affected countries, in six weeks. Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry (Wisma Putra) laud Corporate Malaysia's humanitarian initiative in such times of dire need. "It reflects caring relations and co-operation between Malaysia with all five West African countries," it said. West Africa has been hit by the Ebola outbreak in the past six months. It started out from the south-eastern part of the Republic of Guinea and became a widespread epidemic in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Nigeria and more recently, Republic of Congo.

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National Geographic Magazine - The Evolution of Diet








The Evolution of Diet





By Ann Gibbons
Photographs by Matthieu Paley





Some experts say modern humans should eat from a Stone Age menu. What's on it may surprise you.





It's suppertime in the Amazon of lowland Bolivia, and Ana Cuata Maito is stirring a porridge of plantains and sweet manioc over a fire smoldering on the dirt floor of her thatched hut, listening for the voice of her husband as he returns from the forest with his scrawny hunting dog. With an infant girl nursing at her breast and a seven-year-old boy tugging at her sleeve, she looks spent when she tells me that she hopes her husband, Deonicio Nate, will bring home meat tonight. "The children are sad when there is no meat," Maito says through an interpreter, as she swats away mosquitoes.





Nate left before dawn on this day in January with his rifle and machete to get an early start on the two-hour trek to the old-growth forest. There he silently scanned the canopy for brown capuchin monkeys and raccoonlike coatis, while his dog sniffed the ground for the scent of piglike peccaries or reddish brown capybaras. If he was lucky, Nate would spot one of the biggest packets of meat in the forest--tapirs, with long, prehensile snouts that rummage for buds and shoots among the damp ferns.





This evening, however, Nate emerges from the forest with no meat. At 39, he's an energetic guy who doesn't seem easily defeated--when he isn't hunting or fishing or weaving palm fronds into roof panels, he's in the woods carving a new canoe from a log. But when he finally sits down to eat his porridge from a metal bowl, he complains that it's hard to get enough meat for his family: two wives (not uncommon in the tribe) and 12 children. Loggers are scaring away the animals. He can't fish on the river because a storm washed away his canoe.





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