Israel Isolates the Coronavirus Virus Antibody in a “Significant Breakthrough”

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (Special) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ace Inhibitors ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Virus Antibody ◽  
The South ◽  
Spanish Influenza ◽  
South Pacific Islands

Palliative treatments of COVID 19. Possible use of ACE inhibitors (anti-hypertension agents) in the combat with the Coronavirus [1- 3]. Time may still prove the greatest equality: The Spanish Influenza that broke out in the United States in 1918 seems to have died during the summer only to return to roaring with a more deadly strain in the fall and a third wave the following year. Eventually, he came to distant places like Alaska and the South Pacific islands, infecting a third of the world’s population.

South Pacific Commission

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-482
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
The South ◽  
Work Program ◽  
The Pacific

From April 28 to May 7, 1952 the ninth session of the South Pacific Commission was held in Noumea, New Caledonia.1 The session, which was primarily concerned with administrative matters, was under the chairmanship of N. A. J. de Voogd (Netherlands). As a result of agreement by member governments at the eighth session to include Guam and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands within the scope of the Commission, at the ninth session it was agreed unanimously to extend Commission activities to embrace these territories. Assurances of cooperation in Commission activities were given on behalf of both territories by the Acting Senior Commissioner for the United States (Leebrick) and the Secretary of Guam (Herman). Special aspects of its work program were reviewed by the Commission. The printing of two project reports dealing with the area was authorized: one, on economic development of coral atolls covered a survey made for the Commission in 1951 in the Gilbert Islands and the other was concerned with the possibilities of expanding the cacao industry in the area.

Conservation and Protected Areas on South-Pacific Islands: The Importance of Tradition

1990 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Carew-Reid
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
The South ◽  
Island Ecosystems ◽  
Island Communities ◽  
South Pacific Islands ◽  
Traditional Patterns

The natural environments of the South Pacific islands are degrading rapidly. The region suffers one of the highest rates of species extinction in the world, and has probably the world's highest proportion of endangered species per unit land-area. Most island ecosystems in the South Pacific are totally unprotected, and many are rapidly diminishing in area or at least deteriorating in quality. The practice of conservation through conventional forms of protected areas has been ineffective in Pacific countries, having been applied in ignorance or denial of traditional practices or tenurial arrangements when such traditional patterns are often crucial to the maintenance of South Pacific cultures. Only approaches to conservation which embrace the multiple and subsistence uses of natural resources by island communities are having success.

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