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Mashup Score: 24Security incident data | Aid Worker Security Database - 1 month(s) ago
The numbers below refer to the number of people affected. Click on a column heading to order incidents according to that column. 175 Mar 2002 PS Occupied Palestinian Territories 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 4 0 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 Unknown Combat/Crossfire Unknown 31.649741 35.162072 Incidental Unknown Unknown 1 IFRC national staff killed and 4 wounded by Israeli army. Archived Archived 174 Mar 7 2002 PS Occupied Palestinian Territories 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 Shooting Unknown Unknown 32.31037 35.02863 Unknown
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Mashup Score: 360‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza - 1 month(s) ago
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.
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Mashup Score: 185‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza - 1 month(s) ago
IDF says it ‘completely rejects’ charge that its soldiers deliberately fired on any of the thousands of civilians killed in Israeli offensive
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Mashup Score: 84The past, current and future epidemiological dynamic of SARS-CoV-2 - 1 month(s) ago
F Balloux, C Tan, L Swadling, D Richard, C Jenner, M Maini, L van Dorp, Oxford open immunology, 2022 – Cited by 27
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Mashup Score: 261The Science Is Clear. Over 30,000 People Have Died in Gaza - 2 month(s) ago
Some have questioned the growing death toll in Gaza, but a leading expert explains why it’s correct.
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Mashup Score: 37Did Colonists Give Infected Blankets to Native Americans as Biological Warfare? | HISTORY - 3 month(s) ago
There’s evidence that British colonists in 18th-century America gave Native Americans smallpox-infected blankets at least once—but did it work?
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Mashup Score: 41Genomic epidemiology of the first epidemic wave of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Palestine - 3 month(s) ago
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the novel coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, continues to cause a significant public-health burden and disruption globally. Genomic epidemiology approaches point to most countries in the world having experienced many independent introductions of SARS-CoV-2 during the early stages of the pandemic. However, this situation may change with local lockdown policies and restrictions on travel, leading to the emergence of more geographically structured viral populations and lineages transmitting locally. Here, we report the first SARS-CoV-2 genomes from Palestine sampled from early March 2020, when the first cases were observed, through to August of 2020. SARS-CoV-2 genomes from Palestine fall across the diversity of the global phylogeny, consistent with at least nine independent introductions into the region. We identify one locally predominant lineage in circulation represented by 50 Palestinian SARS-CoV-2, groupin
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Mashup Score: 17
Global human genetic variation is greatly influenced by geography, with genetic differentiation between populations increasing with geographic distance and within-population diversity decreasing with distance from Africa. In fact, these ‘clines’ can explain most of the variation in human populations …
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Mashup Score: 5
The role of migration in the Anglo-Saxon transition in England remains controversial. Archaeological and historical evidence is inconclusive, but current estimates of the contribution of migrants to the English population range from less than 10 000 …
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Mashup Score: 3Acquired Resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to Bedaquiline - 3 month(s) ago
Bedaquiline (BDQ), an ATP synthase inhibitor, is the first drug to be approved for treatment of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in decades. In vitro resistance to BDQ was previously shown to be due to target-based mutations. Here we report that non-target based resistance to BDQ, and cross-resistance to clofazimine (CFZ), is due to mutations in Rv0678, a transcriptional repressor of the genes encoding the MmpS5-MmpL5 efflux pump. Efflux-based resistance was identified in paired isolates from patients treated with BDQ, as well as in mice, in which it was confirmed to decrease bactericidal efficacy. The efflux inhibitors verapamil and reserpine decreased the minimum inhibitory concentrations of BDQ and CFZ in vitro, but verapamil failed to increase the bactericidal effect of BDQ in mice and was unable to reverse efflux-based resistance in vivo. Cross-resistance between BDQ and CFZ may have important clinical implications.
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For those interested in data about deliberate acts of violence affecting aid workers in Gaza (and beyond), I recommend the AWSD database (link below). It looks reasonably up-to-date, well-curated and all recorded incidents come with fairly rich metadata. https://t.co/H9mkR4SC2C