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How Portland Lives With, Not Against, Its Rats

Merilee Karr

May 30, 2014 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

Whether or not rats have free access to garbage matters to a city because the more rats eat, the more babies they make. Portland has continued to enforce old laws that require trash be kept in sturdy rat-resistant containers, keeping their rat population much smaller than other cities.

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A first in Minnesota, cities launch system to treat, stash water underground

Jennifer Vogel

April 16, 2014 |

Minnesota Public Radio |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, St. Michael, Minnesota

Capturing water during times of plenty, storing it underground, and pulling it out later when it's needed—it's a strategy used in the western and southeastern parts of the country, and now, for the first time, in Minnesota.

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Even in region with abundant water, residents turn to bottles and try to conserve

Elizabeth Baier

March 20, 2014 |

Minnesota Public Radio |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Fountain, Minnesota

Some communities are being forced to take steps—sometimes costly ones, like digging deeper wells—to both tap and protect their groundwater.

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Twenty Buses a Day: The High Stakes Race to Create a Global Cholera Early Warning System

Osha Gray Davidson

March 18, 2014 |

Earthzine |

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Response Location: Switzerland, Geneva

Though individual treatments are cheap, cholera is costing the third world countless lives. Using modern technology, researchers work to exterminate it and other curable diseases.

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The Secret To Polio Eradication In India

Devin Thorpe

March 15, 2014 |

Forbes |

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Response Location: India, New Delhi

Population scale and density, insanitary conditions, and malnourishment meant that eradicating polio in India was a tall order. The government, alongside WHO, managed to do it in 2014 using a comprehensive approach.

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An End to Polio in India?

Esha Chhabra

March 05, 2014 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: India, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh

India has, for years, been a hotbed of polio. Supported by the WHO as well as local health-care workers, immunizations have officially rid the country of the disease. There are still challenges in maintaining records and reaching everyone, but the message continously changes and adapts.

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Strung out in Tanzania

Sarika Bansal

March 03, 2014 |

Al Jazeera |

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Response Location: Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam

Less than 1 percent of drug addicts in Africa receive treatment because the issue is disfavored by donors. The national government of Tanzania demanded evidence-based treatment options and is curbing relapses by distributing a drug which temporarily lessens cravings.

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An Afghan Success Story: Fewer Child Deaths

Sean Carberry

February 04, 2014 |

NPR |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: Afghanistan, Guldara

Child mortality rates are decreasing in Afghanistan due to more readily available basic health care, more effective vaccinations, and locally-trained volunteer health workers.

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How India became polio-free

Lane Anderson

January 15, 2014 |

Deseret News |

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Response Location: India, New Delhi, Delhi

India has been able to eradicate polio through large-scale logistics, highly organized vaccine teams, proper funding, and accountability of health officials and front-line workers.

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Treating the Village to Cure the Disease

Jason Silverstein

November 06, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Togo

In communities across Africa, health workers are going house to house with medicine to combat lymphatic filariasis, which is the world’s second-largest cause of chronic disability. They are participating in a strategy called mass drug administration, which treats everyone in an area where a disease is found – even if they aren’t sick or infected.

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