Friday, September 21, 2007

Childhood in China and a fishy treatment for Malaria

The second article on the consequences of China's one child policy is now on-line. It examines the pressures which 'lone' children in China are under to succeed. Click on the image to link to the BBC web page.



On a different aspect of human geography and relevant to Development and Health in paper 2 is this article in Labnews.co.uk which describes how effective a fish can be in the battle to control malaria in Kenya. It seems that the Nile Tilapia (above) has an insatiable appetite for mosquito larvae and can reduce populations of malaria-carrying mosquitoes by around 94%.