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Lima, Aug 13 (EFE).- (Camera: Fernando Gimeno)The cinchona tree helped to save millions of lives when its bark was used to produce the anti-malarial medication quinine. The tropical Andean forest plant has been used by native people for centuries for its medicinal properties and was harvested almost to exhaustion in colonial times to treat malaria.Now hydroxychloroquine, a synthetic modification of quinine, is being used as an unproven treatment for Covid-19, Peru’s national tree is under threat of extinction again.FOOTAGE OF THE CINCHONA.SOUNDBITES OF ALEJANDRO GÓMEZ, FOREST ENGINEER AND CINCHONA INVESTIGATOR.Translation:"Let's unite our efforts, unite our efforts and especially give children and the youth the basic knowledge. That's why I always use this saying: What we don't know, we don't love, and what we don't love we don't defend. If we know of it from a young age, we're going to love it and defend it even in adulthood."
A sophisticated climate concept creates a high standard of interior air quality in the new Audi A8 L. A combination filter in the 4-zone deluxe automatic air conditioning binds most gases and particulates – and makes allergens and microorganisms harmless.
Santa Cruz de la Palma, Oct 16 (EFE) .- The most active lava flow of the Cumbre Vieja volcano advances four weeks after its eruption while a new set of evacuations is being taken into consideration by authorities if necessary.SHOT LIST: THE CUMBRE VIEJA VOLCANO SEEN EL PASO, LA PALMA, SPAIN.
Thingsai, Oct 15 (EFE/EPA).- Tian Chin is a Myanmar refugee in India who, like many others, is forced to secretly cross the border to save rice crops in his homeland, risking being caught by the army that has unleashed a reign of terror after ousting a civilian government.“If we do not harvest our rice, we have nothing for the future. We will have to scavenge for wild vegetables or beg," Chin's wife Dawt Hnem, 40, told EFE.Her husband and many of the menfolk, who have taken refuge in Thingsai village of the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, had gone to Fungkah village in Myanmar. (Camera: SANGZUALA HMAR). SHOT LIST: AN EFE INTERVIEW WITH DAWT HNEM, A 40-YEAR OLD WOMAN FROM CHIN STATE, MYANMAR, IN THINGSAI, INDIA.SOUND BITES: DAWT HNEM, A 40-YEAR OLD WOMAN FROM CHIN STATE, MYANMAR.- After the army dropped bombs on Sep. 9, we were very scared. We left our village in a hurry, we did not have time to grab our valuables, we hid in the forest and arrived at Thingsai village on Sep. 13.If we don't harvest our rice, we have nothing for the future. We will have to look for wild vegetables or beg elsewhere.Before my husband left, he told me that he would collect the rice and hide it in makeshift warehouses in the forest since there is no one in our village to stand guard. If you store our grains in our house, the army could come back. They will burn them or destroy them.
Santa Cruz de La Palma, Oct 1 (EFE).- Several areas of the Spanish municipalities of El Paso and Los Llanos de Aridane were placed under lockdown Friday night due to a worsening of the air quality following La Palma's volcanic eruption.The volcano's lava has already damaged 981 buildings, according to the latest update of the European Copernicus terrestrial-monitoring satellite system. (Camera: ANGEL MEDIA). B-ROLL OF THE ERUPTION OF THE VOLCANO ON LA PALMA ISLAND, CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN.
Geneva (Switzerland), May 23 (EFE) .- (Camera: Antonio Broto) Liberalizing patents for anticovid vaccines could save hundreds of thousands of lives, the Red Cross Health Director, Emanuele Capobianco, defends in an interview with Efe., on the eve of an annual assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) where this issue will be debated.FOOTAGE OF THE INTERVIEW WITH EMANUELE CAPOBLANCO, HEALTH DIRECTOR RED CROSS
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