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World Service,04 Oct 1999,23 mins

Outbreak of Parasitic Liver Disease in China

Science In Action

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Chinese and British scieintists work to contain an outbreak of alveolar echinococcosis (AE), a parasitic liver disease, in north-west China. Chinese scientists believe fossil fish are 500 million years old in the early Cambrian period. A new book, Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon by Sandra Knapp, about the British naturalist and evolutionary theorist.

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