The tallest trees in the world are (1) the coastal redwoods of California, (2) Mt. Ash, a eucalypt from southeastern Australia, and (3) the Douglas-fir and Sitka spruce trees of British Columbia and Washington State.
Lethal tropical virus puzzles experts
Lethal tropical virus puzzles experts A new virus which is killing people in Malaysia
has stumped virologists. Scientists do not know what the virus is
or how it is spread but believe that it is transmitted somehow from
pigs to humans as all of the victims to date have been workers on
pig farms. Its symptoms resemble a known but very rare virus called
"Hendra virus". The Hendra virus first appeared in Australia in
1994. 19 APRIL 1999
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