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A Review on Climate, Air Pollution, and Health in North Africa
Current Environmental Health Reports, 2022 The aim of this review is to summarize and provide clear insights into studies that evaluate the interaction between air pollution, climate, and health in North Africa.
El Merabet Youssef
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What is Whiteness in North Africa?
Lateral, 2021 This entry sketches a matrix for conceptualizing race in/ and North Africa that takes Arabness, indigeneity, Islam, the Sahara, and slavery as orienting keywords.
Leila Tayeb
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Epidemiology and phenotypes of multiple sclerosis in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region
Multiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental, Translational and Clinical, 2020 The Middle East North Africa (MENA) region falls in the low-to-moderate multiple sclerosis (MS) prevalence zone, with prevalence rates slightly lower than Southern Europe but much higher than sub-Saharan Africa.
Hani Tamim, Bassem Yamout, Wassim Assaad
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018 Significance The acquisition of agricultural techniques during the so-called Neolithic revolution has been one of the major steps forward in human history.
Genevieve L Wojcik +2 more
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Epidemiology of type 2 diabetes in the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges and call for action
World Journal of Diabetes, 2021 Type 2 diabetes continues to be a serious and highly prevalent public health problem worldwide. In 2019, the highest prevalence of diabetes in the world at 12.2%, with its associated morbidity and mortality, was found in the Middle East and North Africa ...
I. El-Kebbi +3 more
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Mosquito Vectors (Diptera: Culicidae) and Mosquito-Borne Diseases in North Africa
Insects, 2022 Simple Summary People around the world, as well as animals, are at risk of being affected by infectious diseases transmitted by mosquitoes. Indeed, in addition to being pests, some species of mosquitoes have the ability to carry pathogens from one host ...
Amira Nebbak +3 more
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Msphere, 2021 Over the last decades, there has been a dramatic global increase in multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens particularly among Gram-negative bacteria (GNB).
Mahmood Al-Orphaly +6 more
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Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases of Livestock in the Middle East and North Africa: A Review
Insects, 2021 Simple Summary The Middle East and North Africa represent a hyper arid region of the world. Humans in these regions have historically kept domestic livestock usually under harsh environmental circumstances.
Nighat Perveen +2 more
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Alarming coastal vulnerability of the deltaic and sandy beaches of North Africa
Scientific Reports, 2021 The arid coasts of North Africa, extending over 4633 km from the Gulf of Tunis to the Nile Delta, are undergoing pronounced shoreline retreats and coastal floodings that are reported as a consequence of the ongoing sea level rise resulting from global ...
A. Hzami +5 more
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Climate change vulnerability, water resources and social implications in North Africa
Regional Environmental Change, 2020 North Africa is considered a climate change hot spot. Existing studies either focus on the physical aspects of climate change or discuss the social ones.
J. Schilling +3 more
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