<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3c3d4a8e-92a0-443e-bfd8-8e4374610802/58D43014-6606-4D96-B905-039AB3628DA1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ecoworldly.com/2008/12/28/space-satellites-over-china-to-battle-dangerous-snails/" href="http://ecoworldly.com/2008/12/28/space-satellites-over-china-to-battle-dangerous-snails/" style="font-size: 11px;">ecoworldly.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ecoworldly.com/2008/12/28/space-satellites-over-china-to-battle-dangerous-snails/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link: Space Satellites Over China to Battle Dangerous Snails" rel="bookmark" href="http://ecoworldly.com/2008/12/28/space-satellites-over-china-to-battle-dangerous-snails/">Space Satellites Over China to Battle Dangerous Snails</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ecoworldly.com/2008/12/28/space-satellites-over-china-to-battle-dangerous-snails/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ecoworldly.com/img/2EFA5EA3-3958-4C81-B705-5B5A55430544" alt="Space Satellites to Battle Epidemic in China" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ecoworldly.com/2008/12/28/space-satellites-over-china-to-battle-dangerous-snails/">Underwater snails don’t sound very menacing. But some snails carry a kind of flatworm parasite called <STRONG><A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schistosoma">schistosoma</A></STRONG>. The parasite causes schistosomiasis, the second most widespread tropical disease after malaria. In China’s largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake, there are billions of these snails, each one no bigger than the tip of your pinky finger.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ecoworldly.com/2008/12/28/space-satellites-over-china-to-battle-dangerous-snails/"><P>“Really, the only prevention is to not touch the water,” said Ibaraki. “What we hope we can do is point to the most dangerous areas for schistosomiasis transmission based on predictions we can calculate about the snail habitat.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/58D43014-6606-4D96-B905-039AB3628DA1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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